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HISTORY 


CLASS    OF    1868 


YALE    COLLEGE 

if 


1864-1914 


COMPILED   BY 

Henry  P.  Wright,  Class  Secretary 


NEW    HAVEN 

The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press 

1914 


V 


So  with  us,  Classmates,  in  the  coming  years 
Which  shall  convey  us  onward  to  the  tomb, 
We  shall  grow  feeble,  weak  and  bent  with  toil. 
But  college  memories  ne'er  will  lose  their  bloom. 

And  when  our  footsteps  lead  us  here  again 
To  view  these  scenes  oft  thought  of  with  delight. 
We  may  be  wayworn,  weary  with  life's  work. 
But  olden  memories  ever  will  be  bright. 

Linn's  Class  Poem. 


Dear  Classmates: 

This  book,  without  doubt  the  last  that  will  be  issued  by 
Sixty-eight,  has  been  prepared  especially  for  the  members  of 
the  class  and  their  families.  It  contains  the  history  of  the 
class  since  its  admission  to  college  in  the  fall  of  1864,  and 
includes  biographical  sketches  of  all  its  members,  graduate  and 
non-graduate.  For  the  sake  of  completeness,  the  important  parts 
of  previous  class  histories  have  been  retained  in  this.  Class- 
mates who  died  early  have  not  been  forgotten,  but  have  been 
considered  just  as  worthy  of  a  place  in  the  book  as  those  who 
have  been  blessed  with  a  longer  life. 

Following  your  wishes,  as  expressed  at  the  reunion  in  June 
last,  portraits  of  members  of  the  Faculty  are  included,  and  two 
portraits  of  each  member  of  the  class  when  these  could  be 
obtained.  In  a  few  cases  it  has  been  found  impossible  to  get 
any  photographs  of  classmates,  except  those  taken  at  the  time 
of  our  graduation.  The  plan  of  putting  side  by  side  two  pictures 
of  each  man,  one  taken  at  graduation  and  the  other  in  mature 
life,  originated  with  the  Class  of  '62,  and  has  been  followed  by 
so  many  classes  that  it  has  become  a  custom  which  seems  likely 
to  be  adopted  by  every  class  secretary  in  the  preparation  of 
one  of  the  books  published  a  quarter-century  or  more  after 
graduation. 

My  correspondence  with  you,  kept  up  during  so  many  years, 
has  taken  time,  both  yours  and  mine.  To  me  it  has  been  a 
pleasant  recreation,  amid  the  more  burdensome  duties  of  a  busy 
life.  It  is  too  much  to  believe  that  my  frequent  inquiries  for 
information  have  always  been  welcome,  but  I  appreciate  the 
general  promptness  and  completeness  of  your  answers,  and  am 
grateful  that  no  one  of  you  has  ever  shown  to  me  any  sign 
of  annoyance  because  he  had  to  write  to  me  so  often.  For  your 
frequent  expressions  of  personal  regard  I  am  truly  grateful.  I 
do  not  propose  to  drop  my  correspondence  with  you  on  the 
publication  of  this  book.  I  ask  you  to  keep  me  well  informed 
regarding  the  events  of  your  individual  and  family  history,  that 


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THE    CLASS   OF    1868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


T  may  from  time  to  time  send  out  letters  like  those  issued  in 
191 1  and  1912.  Of  course  you  will  advise  me  promptly  of  any 
change  in  address. 

The  Class  Secretary  of  '84.  the  publishers  of  the  Decrow  Book, 
and  the  editors  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Weekly  have  kindly  loaned 
plates  for  several  views  of  college  buildings  and  for  some  por- 
traits of  the  Faculty.  For  valuable  help  in  gathering  material 
regarding  many  non-graduates,  I  am  under  obligations  to  my 
friend  and  former  assistant  in  the  Dean's  Office,  Mr.  Elmer  E. 
Beeck  of  New  York  City. 


Affectionately  yours, 

Henry  P.  Wright, 

Class  Secretary 


NEW  Havex.  April  28,  1914. 


HISTORY 


CLASS   OF   SIXTY- EIGHT 


THE   CLASS 

On  September  14,  1864,  the  Class  of  Sixty-eight  entered  Yale 
with  one  hundred  and  forty-one  members.  During  the  second  and 
third  terms  of  Freshman  year  twelve  others  joined,  making 
the  whole  number  of  Freshmen  one  hundred  and  fifty-three. 
Eighteen  were  added  in  Sophomore  year,  five  in  Junior  year,  and 
one  after  the  Junior  annual.  The  whole  number  connected  with 
the  class  during  the  four  college  years  was  one  hundred  and 
seventy-seven.  The  class  lost  by  withdrawal  or  dismissal,  in 
Freshman  year  thirty-four,  in  Sophomore  year  twenty-four,  in 
Junior  year  nine,  and  two  failed  to  receive  their  degrees.  Three 
members  of  the  class  died  during  the  four  years :  Edwin  Dodge 
Ryan  during  the  first  summer  vacation,  Henry  Saunders  Tim- 
merman  during  the  first  term  of  Sophomore  year,  and  James 
Sherman  Loomis  during  the  first  term  of  Senior  year.  On  the 
23d  of  July,  1868,  one  hundred  and  five  received  the  degree  of 
B.A.  Five,  who  left  during  the  course,  subsequently  received 
the  academical  degree  from  Yale  and  were  enrolled  with  the 
class,  on  the  list  of  which,  in  the  Quinquennial  Catalogue,  there 
are  one  hundred  and  ten  names. 

A  large  part  of  the  class  received  their  preparation  at  well- 
known  academies.  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  furnished 
twenty-five ;  Williston  Seminary,  twelve ;  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  eight ;  Hudson  River  Institute,  five ;  Albany  Academy, 
four;  Connecticut  Literary  Institution,  four;  Ithaca  Academy, 
four;  Wesleyan  Academy,  four;  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  three: 


2  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Hartford  High  School,  three;  General  Russell's  Collegiate 
Institute,  three;  Worcester  (Mass.)  High  School,  three;  Peeks- 
kill  Academy,  three;  Edwards  Place  School  (Stockbridge, 
Mass.),  three;  Trumansburgh  (N.  Y.)  Academy,  two;  Yonkers 
Collegiate  Institute,  two;  West  Chester  Academy,  two;  City 
University  of  St.  Louis,  two.  Forty-three  preparatory  schools 
each  sent  one  representative,  and  forty-two  members  of  the  class 
were  prepared  privately. 

The  Civil  War  closed  during  our  Freshman  year.  Nineteen 
members  of  Sixty-eight  had  served  as  volunteers  in  the  Army 
or  Xavy  of  the  United  States  before  joining  the  class.  Eight 
enlisted  from  Connecticut,  five  from  Massachusetts,  two  from 
Pennsylvania,  and  one  each  from  Rhode  Island,  New  York,  New 
Jersey,  and  Delaware. 

Sixty-five  per  cent,  of  the  class  came  from  New  England  and 
New  York.  Nearly  one-half  were  born  in  the  two  States  of 
Mew  York  and  Connecticut,  the  former  being  the  birthplace  of 
forty-eight  and  the  latter  of  thirty-eight.  Twenty-two  were 
born  in  Massachusetts,  eleven  in  Pennsylvania,  ten  in  Ohio,  seven 
in  Illinois,  five  in  New  Jersey,  five  in  Tennessee,  three  in  Maine, 
three  in  New  Hampshire,  three  in  Vermont,  three  in  Maryland, 
three  in  Michigan,  three  in  India,  two  in  Rhode  Island,  two  in 
Kentucky,  two  in  Missouri,  and  two  in  Wisconsin.  Delaware, 
Louisiana,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Chile  and  Turkey  each 
contributed  one. 

At  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year,  September  14,  1864,  the 
average  age  of  the  class,  including  all  who  ever  belonged  to  it, 
was  eighteen  years  and  eight  months.  On  Commencement  Day, 
July  23,  1868,  the  average  age  of  the  one  hundred  and  five  gradu- 
ates was  twenty-two  years  and  five  months.  The  age  of  the 
oldest  member  of  the  class,  George  Eastburn,  was  twenty-nine 
years,  nine  months  and  twenty-eight  days;  of  the  youngest  mem- 
ber, William  C.  Wood,  nineteen  years,  two  months  and  three 
days.  Thirteen  men  were  graduated  at  twenty  or  under,  and 
twelve  at  twenty-five  or  over.  Fifty-one,  or  nearly  one-half,  were 
born  in  the  years  1846  and  1847.  The  religious  preferences  of 
the  class,  as  shown  by  attendance  at  church,  were:  Congrega- 
tionalistS  and  Presbyterians,  seventy-three;  Episcopalians,  nine- 
teen; Methodists,  seven;  Baptists,  three;  Universalist,  one; 
Lutheran,  one. 


THE   FOUR   COLLEGE  YEARS 

Freshman  Year 

By  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year  every  member  of  the 
class  had  been  pledged  to  either  Linonia  or  Brothers.  A  rather 
small  number  attended  the  regular  meetings  of  these  literary 
societies,  but  in  the  annual  Prize  Debates,  of  which  each  society 
held  one  for  each  of  the  four  classes,  there  was  great  interest, 
and  the  speakers  were  always  sure  of  a  large  and  enthusiastic 
audience.  Every  member  of  Sixty-eight,  except  Woodruff,  joined 
either  Delta  Kappa,  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon,  or  Gamma  Nu,  the 
three  Freshman  societies  whose  meetings  were  held  on  Saturday 
evenings.  These  societies  were  beneficial  in  many  ways.  They  gave 
every  man  the  chance  to  get  acquainted  with  a  considerable  por- 
tion of  the  class  at  the  outset.  They  did  much  to  create  a  healthy 
class  spirit.  They  gave  opportunity  for  some  literary  work,  and 
for  unobjectionable  entertainment.  They  kept  the  Freshmen  in 
New  Haven  on  Saturday  evenings.  As  no  member  of  the  class 
was  excluded  from  their  privileges,  they  were  thoroughly 
democratic. 

The  Presidential  election  of  1864  aroused  great  interest  in  the 
college  world,  and  nearly  all  Yale  students  were  enrolled  either 
in  the  Yale  Union  Club  or  the  Yale  McClellan  Club.  At  the 
grand  Yale  Union  Meeting  in  Brothers  Hall,  letters  were  read 
from  Edward  Everett,  William  C.  Bryant,  Charles  Sumner, 
Joseph  P.  Thompson  and  William  M.  Evarts,  and  stirring 
addresses  made  by  Henry  B.  Harrison  and  Professor  Northrop. 
For  the  first  time  we  witnessed  the  enthusiasm  of  a  Yale  audience, 
and  felt  proud  that  we  were  a  part  of  Yale  College. 

On  November  16  of  this  year,  the  corner  stone  of  the  Yale 
School  of  the  Fine  Arts  was  laid  with  appropriate  ceremonies. 
The  chief  address  was  given  by  Professor  E.  E.  Salisbury.  In 
the  same  month  the  college  was  called  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one 
of  its  most  distinguished  scholars,  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman, 
who  died  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

There  were  frequent  collisions  on  the  street  between  Sixty- 
seven  and  Sixty-eight  during  the  first  few  weeks.  These  helped 
to  develop  a  class  spirit,  and  both  classes  enjoyed  a  good  rush. 


4  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

That  these  hostile  meetings  were  not  always  accidental  is  shown 
by  the  following  notice,  which  was  read  in  each  of  the  three 
Freshman  Societies  on  a  certain  Saturday  evening  in  the  first 
term,  and  therefore  reached  nearly  every  man  in  the  class : 

"Reliable  information  having  been  obtained  that  the  Sophomores  are 
intending  to  come  out  to-night  and  rush  the  Class  of  '68  while  coming 
home  from  their  different  Societies,  it  has  been  deemed  advisable  for  the 
three  Societies  to  coalesce  and  march  up  together.  The  best  plan  will  be 
for  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  to  adjourn,  if  possible,  at  10.30  o'clock  and  come 


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in  a  body  to  Gamma  Nu  Hall,  which  latter  Society  will  then  come  down 
and  unite  with  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  on  the  sidewalk,  and  march  up  to 
Delta  Kappa  Hall.  The  three  will  then  coalesce  and  march  up  together. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  a  large  company  will  be  thus  gathered  together,  for 
much  depends  upon  this  struggle.    Will  every  man  be  on  hand? 

"P.  S.     The  Sophomores  are  also  intending  to  haze  certain  ones  to-night. 

"Will  this  notice  be  read  in  Delta  Kappa  this  evening?  The  same  will  be 
read  in  Kappa  Sigma  Epsilon  and  Gamma  Nu,  and  the  three  Societies 
should  take  action  accordingly." 

We  made  an  early  acquaintance  with  Candy  Sam.  who  was 
always  to  be  found,  just  before  recitation,  in  his  place  leaning 


THE   FOUR    COLLEGE    YEARS  5 

against  the  wall  of  the  old  Atheneum,  and,  with  his  dejected 
smile,  trying  to  persuade  us  to  part  with  our  fractional  currency. 
Hannibal,  with  his  "fine,  fresh,  pure,  genuine,  superior,  excel- 
lent, home-made,  old-fashioned"  article,  did  not  condescend  to 
deal  with  Freshmen   "as  such." 

The  Thanksgiving  Recess,  in  1864,  included  Thanksgiving  Day 
and  the  Friday  and  Saturday  following.  By  a  peculiar  rule 
then  in  force,  those  who  did  not  leave  town  for  this  recess  were 


CANDY    SAM 


HANNIBAL 


put  together  in  new  divisions  and  required  to  attend  the  usual 
recitations.  The  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  amused  those  who  were 
so  unfortunate  as  to  remain  in  New  Haven  for  this  short  recess. 
Brewster,  Durant,  Foster  and  Smith  represented  Sixty-eight  on 
the  Jubilee  Committee.  We  cheerfully  furnished  the  presidents 
and  secretary  for  the  evening,  who  were  selected  in  strict  accord- 
ance with  the  standing  rule,  stated  thus  on  the  program : 

"The  Committee  will  measure  and  select  the  two  shortest  men  in  the 
Freshman  Class  for  Presidents  of  the  meeting,  and  the  longest  man  for 
Secretary.  The  audience  are  requested  to  pass  the  candidates  to  the  stage 
with  great  care." 


PROFESSOR    JAMES    HADI.EY 


TUTOR    TRACY    PECK 


TUTOR    P.    R.    DEXTER 


TUTOR    A.    W.    WRIGHT 


FRESHMAN  FACULTY 


THE   FOUR    COLLEGE   YEARS  7 

H.  S.  Swayne  was  the  Director  of  the  "Yale  Orchestra,"  and 
Billy  Bragg  was  on  the  program  for  a  banjo  solo. 

Following  the  college  custom  of  our  time,  the  class  came  out 
with  bangers  and  beavers  on  Washington's  Birthday.  About 
this  time  also  occurred  the  memorable  rush  between  Sixty-seven 
and  Sixty-eight  on  High  Street,  which  was  begun  by  the  attempt 
of  Sixty-seven  to  drag  several  members  of  Wright's  Club  from 
the  dining  room  into  the  street.  The  police,  as  usual  in  those 
days,  were  unable  to  stop  the  "riot" ;  but  when  Tutor  Peck  and 
other  members  of  the  Faculty  were  seen  coming  down  High 
Street,  men  of  discretion  suddenly  remembered  that  they  had 
business  elsewhere. 

In  Freshman  year  a  temperance  society  was  formed,  whose 
members  signed  a  pledge  approved  by  President  Woolsey  and 
binding  only  while  the  signers  were  undergraduates  of  the 
College : 

"We  hereby  pledge  ourselves,  on  our  solemn  oath  and  on  our  honor 
as  gentlemen,  to  abstain  wholly  from  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors, 
except  for  medicinal  purposes,  until  the  close  of  our  college  course." 

Fifty-six  names  of  members  of  Sixty-eight  were  on  this 
pledge. 

For  instruction  and  discipline,  the  class  was  divided  alpha- 
betically into  four  divisions,  and  carried  on  four  courses  of 
study  through  the  year.  During  the  first  term,  the  fifth  and 
sixth  books  of  the  Odyssey  were  read  with  Professor  Hadley, 
and  the  first  book  of  Livy  with  Tutor  Wright.  Tutor  Dexter 
taught  Euclid,  and  Tutor  Peck,  Day's  Algebra.  In  the  second 
and  third  terms,  Tutor  Wright  read  with  the  class  the  twenty- 
first  and  twenty-second  books  of  Livy  and  the  Odes  of  Horace. 
Tutor  Dexter  followed  Professor  Hadley  with  one  of  our  pleas- 
antest  courses  in  Greek,  consisting  of  the  ninth  book  of  the 
Odyssey  and  selections  from  Herodotus  and  Lucian.  Tutor  Otis 
instructed  in  Euclid  and  Trigonometry,  and  Tutor  Peck  gave  us 
valuable  work  in  Latin  Composition  and  Roman  History. 

Twenty-five  members  of  the  class  took  part  in  the  Freshman 
Prize  Debates,  nine  in  Linonia  and  sixteen  in  Brothers.  The 
awards  were: 


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THE   FOUR    COLLEGE    YEARS  9 

Linonia:     1st  Prize,  Brewster;    2d  Prizes,  G.  H.  Lewis  and 

B.  M.  Wilson ;   3d  Prize,  J.  Lewis. 
Brothers:     1st  Prizes,  Ayers  and  Welles;    2d  Prizes,   Hume 

and  Tinker;   3d  Prize,  J.  H.  Thomas. 

The  Woolscy  Scholarship  was  won  by  W.  C.  Wood;  the 
Hurlbutj  by  Wright;   and  the  Runk,  by  Lawrence. 

The  first  Mathematical  Prize  was  awarded  to  Miller,  and  the 
second  to  I  [arger. 


Bragg  Greene  Parsons  Tweedy 

Bingham  Tytus  Bull  Coffin  Sloane 

FRESHMAN    JUBILEE    COMMITTEE 

Annual  examinations  were  introduced  at  the  end  of  our  Fresh- 
man year,  and  we  were  the  first  class  to  have  four  annuals.  On 
July  20,  immediately  after  the  last  session  of  the  examination, 
we  celebrated  with  a  Dinner  at  Savin  Rock.  The  class  marched 
down  Chapel  Street  to  the  old  station,  headed  by  Tompkins' 
Band  of  Waterbury,  took  a  special  train  to  West  Haven,  and 
marched  to  the  Savin  Rock  House,  where  we  had  an  Annual 
Jubilee  Dinner,  called  Annual,  not  because  it  was  to  be  repeated 
each  year,  but  because  it  came  at  the  close  of  the  Annual  Exam- 
ination. The  Jubilee  poem  was  written  by  Yarnum,  and  the 
class  histories  by  Bull  and  Linn.  The  Jubilee  Committee  con- 
sisted of  Bingham,  Bragg,  Bull,  Coffin,  Greene,  Parsons,  Sloane, 
Tytus,  and  Tweedy.    The  following  week,  a  few  of  us  went  up 


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THE    CLASS   OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


to  Worcester  and  saw  a  Yale  crew  come  in  with  a  good  lead 
over  Harvard,  the  only  victory  in  a  University  race  which  we 
ever  had  the  pleasure,  as  undergraduates,  of  witnessing. 


T1MMERMAX    AND    VARNUM 


Sophomore  Year 

We  returned  after  the  first  summer  vacation  much  reduced  in 
numbers,  but  with  all  the  usual  characteristics  of  a  Sophomore 
class.  In  that  year  the  disorders  between  the  two  lower  classes 
were  said  to  be  unusually  serious,  and  many  members  of  Sixty- 
eight  were  suspended,  among  them  some  of  the  most  prominent 
and  most  worthy  men  in  the  class.  A  member  of  the  class  wrote 
in  March,  1866: 

"There  has  hardly  been  a  class  in  Yale  that  has  suffered  more  than  our 
own.  Since  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year,  we  have  lost,  in  all,  sixty- 
eight  men — among  them  some  of  our  best  writers,  speakers  and  scholars, 
nearly  all  our  strongest  boating  men  and  our  best  musicians  and  singers. 
The  ordinary  causes  have  removed  many,  but  the  Faculty  has  done  the 
worst.  Since  the  commencement  of  Sophomore  year  we  have  lost  twenty- 
three  of  our  classmates  by  suspension." 

The  following  Resolutions  were  passed  at  a  meeting  on  Octo- 
ber 5,  1865,  and  sent  to  the  parents  of  the  suspended  men : 

"Whereas,  The  Faculty  of  Yale  College  have  deemed  it  proper  to  sus- 
pend several  of  our  classmates  on  these  grounds,  namely,  that  in  main- 
taining, as  we  claim,  the  old  and  established  customs  of  this  institution 
and  thus  supporting  the  dignity  of  our  class,  we  have  subjected  the  Fresh- 
men to  treatment  which  demanded  the  attention  of  the  Faculty; 


THE   FOUR   COLLEGE   YEARS  II 

"Therefore,  Resolved,  That  we  consider  this  suspension  in  every  resfeet 
as  too  severe  and  unmerited,  and  that  when  we  consider  the  admission 
of  the  Faculty  themselves  that  they  were  punished  not  for  their  own 
faults,  but  as  examples  for  the  offences  of  the  class,  we  can  but  think 
their  sentence  is  more  a  misfortune  than  a  disgrace. 

"Resolved,  That  in  the  characters  of  our  classmates  we  recognize  the 
true  elements  of  gentlemen,  scholars,  and  whole-souled  friends,  and  that 
it  is  the  unanimous  wish  of  the  class  that  they  should  return  to  a  par- 
ticipation in  their  college  duties  at  the  expiration  of  their  terms  of 
suspension. 

"Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  parents  of 
our  classmates." 


Daniel  Pratt,  the  great  American  Traveler,  was  a  frequent 
visitor  at  Yale  during  this  and  the  two  following  years,  delivering 
to  the  students  his  " famous  oratorical  and  poetical  orations  on 
the  great  laws  of  mind  and  matter  and  the  mysteries  and  miracles, 
treating  on  vegetable,  man,  beast,  birds  and  fish,  interspersed 
with  poetry  and  anecdotes."  He  announced  himself  as  candidate 
for  the  office  of  President  of  the  United  States  in  1868,  with 
General  Ulysses  S.  Grant  for  Vice-President,  and  in  every  speech 
recited  the  following  verses : 

"  Let  Shakespeare  stand  behind  the  door, 
Let  Byron  take  his  pen  no  more, 
Let  Milton  molder  in  the  tomb, 
And  give  the  great  American  room." 

At  the  beginning  of  the  third  term  of  our  Sophomore  year,  the 
College  Authorities  opened  a  "Boarding-Place"  in  the  campus 
house  on  High  Street  next  to  the  Art  Building,  in  order  "to 
furnish  a  substantial  and  good  table  at  the  most  reasonable  rates." 
The  result  of  this  movement,  which  was  started  by  Professor 
Thomas  A.  Thacher,  is  seen  in  the  present  University  Dining 
Hall,  which  contains  seats  for  over  one  thousand  persons. 

In  our  Sophomore  year,  the  first  number  of  the  Yale  Pot 
Pourri  was  issued  by  David  J.  Burrell  of  Sixty-seven,  the  first 
number  of  the  Yale  Conrant  appeared,  and  the  first  College  Nine 
was  formed.  To  the  Yale  Nine  Sixty-eight  contributed  Coffin 
as  pitcher  and  Varick  as  third  baseman.  This  Nine  played  the 
Charter  Oaks  of  Hartford  for  the  championship  of  the  State. 
The  two  successive  victories  in  the  University  races  at  Worcester, 


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THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


in  the  years  1864  and  1865,  stimulated  the  interest  in  rowing-,  and, 
in  the  spring  races  between  Yaruna,  Glyuna  and  Undine  crews, 
rowed  on  Wednesday,  June  6,  1866,  the  class  did  its  share,  being 
well  represented  in  both  shell  and  gig  crews,  by  Bingham,  Coffin, 
Parry,  J.  R.  Holmes  and  Ferry. 

Two  other  aquatic  events  by  members  of  the  class  are  worthy 
of  mention.  During  the  spring  vacation,  a  crew,  composed  of 
Bingham  (stroke),  Ferry,  Parry,  Fowler  and  Coffin  (coxswain), 
made  a  trip  in  the  Glyuna  gig  to  Hartford  by  way  of  the  Sound 
and  Connecticut  River,  stopping  at  Guilford,  Clinton,  Goodspeed's 


YALE  BOAT   HOUSE 

Landing,  Middletown,  and  some  way  stations.  The  whole 
journey,  counting  the  subsequent  pull  down  the  river  to  Say- 
brook,  was  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  miles. 

On  a  Saturday  afternoon  during  the  Sophomore  Annuals, 
Abbott,  Biddle  and  Ballantyne  made  a  successful  sail  to  the 
Thimble  Islands.  On  the  return  they  lay  becalmed,  without  food, 
all  Saturday  night  and  until  late  in  the  afternoon  of  Sunday, 
when,  a  light  breeze  springing  up,  they  were  able  by  means  of 
sail  and  oars  to  reach  New  Haven  Sunday  evening,  and  quiet 
the  fears  of  their  classmates. 

On  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee  from  Sixty-eight  were 
Manierre,  Sloane,  Parry  and  R.  L.  Reade.  Linn's  oration  at  the 
Jubilee  was  declared  by  the  editors  of  the  Lit  to  be  "the  best 
of  the  kind  we  ever  heard." 


THE   FOUR    COLLEGE   YEARS  1 3 

Parsons  was  elected  Secretary  of  Linonia,  and  Varick,  Secre- 
tary of  Brothers.  Twenty-five  members  of  the  class  competed 
in  the  Sophomore  Prize  Debates,  nine  in  Linonia  and  sixteen  in 
Brothers.    The  awards  were: 

Linonia:     ist  Prize,  Brewster;   2d  Prize,  J.  Lewis;  3d  Prizes, 
G.  Lewis  and  Varnum. 

Brothers:     ist  Prizes,  Ayres  and  S.  A.  Davenport;   2d  Prizes, 
Hume  and  Tinker ;  3d  Prizes,  Lawrence  and  W.  C.  Wood. 

At  a  meeting  on  February  14,  the  following  were  elected  Class 
Historians : 

First  Division,  Brewster. 
Second  Division,  Linn. 
Third  Division,  Welles. 

Wesson,  Varnum  and  G.  Lewis  were,  at  the  same  meeting, 
appointed  a  committee  to  procure  a  Class  Stamp  and  Motto ; 
and  Hamilton,  Swayne  and  Scarritt,  a  committee  to  arrange  a 
Class  Song. 

Those  who  had  talent  and  time  for  music  joined  the  Beethoven 
Society,  a  flourishing  organization  which  advertised  "a  chorus 
of  fifty  male  voices,"  and  gave  concerts  in  Music  Hall,  and  also 
in  Hartford,  Boston,  Worcester,  Meriden,  Brooklyn,  New  York 
City  and  Providence.  The  Society  was  welcomed  in  all  these 
cities,  and  the  papers  heartily  commended  the  performers  both 
as  singers  and  as  men.  The  greater  part  of  the  selections  were 
encored,  but  the  most  popular  pieces  were  "Bagpipes"  and  "I  am 
Charles  Augustus." 

The  Connecticut  Legislature  met  in  New  Haven  in  the  Old 
State  House,  opposite  the  campus,  in  our  Sophomore  and  Senior 
years  ;  but  the  glory  of  New  Haven  as  a  State  Capital  departed, 
and  the  Old  State  House  was  removed  many  years  since. 

We  had  the  usual  Sophomore  studies,  in  three  divisions,  viz. : 
Trigonometry,  Conic  Sections  and  Analytics,  with  Professor 
Newton;  Orations  of  Demosthenes,  Antigone  of  Sophocles, 
Alcestis  of  Euripides,  with  some  selections  from  Theocritus  and 
Juvenal,  with  Tutor  Kitchel ;  the  Satires  and  Epistles  of  Horace 
and  Cicero's  De  Officiis,  with  Tutor  Wright,  who  was  replaced 
in  the  third  term  by  Professor  Northrop  in  Rhetoric.     Mr.  F.  G. 


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PROFESSOR    H.    A.    NEWTON  PROFESSOR    CYRUS    NORTHROP 


MARK    ISAILEY 


TUTOR   C.   L.    K  ITCH  EL 


SOPHOMORE    FACULTY 


THE  FOUR  COLLEGE  YEARS 


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Welch  had  full  classes  in  the  Dio  Lewis  system  of  gymnastics, 
in  the  old  gymnasium,  said  in  the  papers  of  that  day  to  be  the 
best  gymnasium,  with  one  exception,  in  the  country.  For  many 
of  us  the  most  valuable  work  of  the  year  was  done  in  competi- 
tion for  the  five,  three  and  two  dollar  premiums  in 

Sophomore  Composition. 

First  premiums  were  awarded  to  Brewster,  Harger,  Linn, 

McKinney,  Tinker. 
Second  premiums,  to  Ayres,  Coats,  J.  Lewis,  Wright. 
Third  premiums,  to  Coffin,  S.  A.  Davenport,  Ferry,  Hume, 

Lawrence,  Viele,  Webster,  W.  C.  Wood. 
Special  Prize  for  English  Poem,  to  Viele. 

Prizes  were  also  awarded  in  Declamation: 
1st,  to  Brewster,  G.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  Tinker. 
2d,  to  Coats,  Hume,  Morse,  N.  Thomas. 
3d,  to  Ayres,  Linn,  Moore,  Welles,  Wright. 

Prizes  for  excellence  in  Mathematics  were  given: 
1st,  to  Biddle  and  E.  W.  Miller. 
2d,  to  W.  C.  Wood. 


INGERSOLL,   JENNINGS,   PHILLIPS 


PROFESSOR    T.    A.    THACHER 


PROFESSOR    ELIAS    LOOMIS 


PROFESSOR    J.    D.    DANA 


PROFESSOR    o.    C.    MARSH 


JUNIOR  FACULTY 


THE   FOUR   COLLEGE    YEARS  17 

In  the  spring  of  1866,  there  was  unusual  religious  interest  in 
college,  which  continued  in  our  class  till  graduation;  On  Sun- 
day. June  3,  twenty  were  admitted  to  the  College  Church  on 
profession. 

In  some  respects  the  most  noteworthy  event  of  this  year  was 
the  reception  by  the  College  Authorities  given  General  William 
T.  Sherman,  and  his  address  to  the  students  from  the  steps  of 
the  Library.  Many  of  US  received  lasting  impressions  from  that 
plain  and  practical  speech. 

Junior  Year 

During  the  summer  vacation  of  1866,  the  Yale  Glee  Club,  con- 
sisting of  twelve  members  from  the  Classes  of  Sixty-four, 
Sixty-five,  Sixty-six  and  Sixty-seven,  made  a  trip  along  the  shore 
from  New  Haven  to  Boston,  and  gave  twenty-one  concerts 
between  July  24  and  August  31. 

The  Yale  Banner  came  out  October  1  as  an  eight-page  sheet, 
the  Banner  and  Supplement  being  combined,  and  it  was  thought 
much  superior  to  any  previous  issue.  The  second  number  of 
the  Yale  Pot  Pourri  appeared  in  pamphlet  form,  the  first  number 
having  been  issued  in  November,  1865. 

The  studies  of  Junior  year  were  especially  pleasant.  Per- 
haps the  most  stimulating  course  was  that  of  Professor  Thacher 
in  the  Agricola  and  Germania  of  Tacitus,  who  communicated  to 
us  something  of  his  own  enthusiasm  for  his  subject.  Professor 
Loomis's  lectures  in  Natural  Philosophy  kept  us  interested,  and 
his  experiments  never  failed.  He  was  more  sure  to  hit  the 
bull's-eye  with  the  air  gun,  loaded  the  previous  year  in  the 
presence  of  the  Class  of  Sixty-seven,  than  Robert  Park  was  to 
break  a  bottle  with  the  air  pump.  His  accurate  work  in  Astron- 
omy, to  which  Hume  referred  in  his  address  at  the  Alumni 
Meeting  in  1893,  can  never  be  forgotten.  We  continued  our 
pleasant  acquaintance  with  Professor  Northrop  in  a  History  of 
English  Literature,  but  of  the  literature  itself  we  read  only  short 
extracts.  The  class  enjoyed,  for  a  third  year,  the  instruction  of 
Tutor  Wright,  who  had  us  now  in  his  own  department  of 
Natural  Philosophy;  but  this  he  had  to  supplement  in  the  third 
term  with  Logic.  Professor  Barker  began,  in  the  third  term,  a 
course  in  Chemistry,  to  be  continued  in  Senior  year.     Elective 


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courses  were  offered  to  a  limited  extent,  each  one  being  required 
to  choose  either  French  or  German  (both  with  Professor  Whit- 
ney), and  also,  either  Greek  with  Professor  Hadley  or  Calculus 
with  Professor  Newton. 

Early  in  Junior  year,  a  Baseball  Association  was  formed,  of 
which  Sloane  was  Vice-President  and  Linn,  Secretary.  Coffin 
was  elected  Captain  of  the  University  Nine.  In  the  Navy,  Coffin 
was  also  elected  first  Fleet  Captain.  On  the  crews  of  this  year, 
Ferry,  de  Kay,  DeForest,  I.  C.  Hall,  McKinney,  Morse,  Page, 
Parsons  and  Rawson  rowed  in  the  Varuna  boats,  and  Bingham, 
Edwards,  Fowler  and  Wheeler  in  the  Glyuna. 

Bragg,  Brewster,  N.  Thomas  and  Tytus  represented  the  class 
on  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee,  but,  owing  to  a  variety 
of  circumstances,  the  Jubilee  did  not  take  place.  Colt  was  chosen 
Secretary  of  Linonia,  and  Coffin,  of  Brothers. 

On  February  24,  1867,  Professor  Northrop  was  nominated  by 
the  Republicans  for  Representative  in  Congress  from  the  Second 
Congressional  District,  but  at  the  election  he  was  defeated  by 
his  Democratic  opponent. 

The  only  reading  room  we  knew  for  the  first  three  years  was 
located  in  the  basement  of  the  Gymnasium.  In  May  of  our 
Junior  year,  a  new  reading  room  was  opened  on  the  first  floor 
of  South  Middle  College,  occupying  the  four  middle  rooms. 
The  partitions  between  the  rooms  were  removed,  and  the  College 
Book  Store,  which  had  before  been  in  34  South  Middle,  was 
transferred  to  the  Reading  Room  and  placed  in  the  center.  This 
reading  room  was  supplied  with  twenty-one  daily  and  fifteen 
religious  papers,  twenty-eight  magazines,  and  ten  foreign 
publications. 

Nineteen  members  of  the  class  entered  the  Junior  Price 
Debates,  seven  in  Linonia  and  twelve  in  Brothers.  The  awards 
were: 

Linonia:    1st  Prize,  Varniim ;   2d  Prizes,  Coats  and  G.  Lewis; 

3d  Prize,  J.  Lewis. 
Brothers:    1st  Prizes,  Ayres  and  S.  A.  Davenport;   2d  Prizes, 

Coffin  and  Hume;   3d  Prizes,  Morse  and  N.  Thomas. 

The  Sixty-eight  Junior  Appointment  List  was  announced  at 
the  beginning  of  the  second  term.  In  a  class  of  one  hundred  and 
fifteen,  there  were  seventy-seven  who  had  appointments,  i.  e., 


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MANAGERS 


JAMES    WHITIN   ABBOTT, 


DONALD   MacGREGOR, 


WILLIAM    CHITTENDEN   BRAGG,      OLIVER   CROMWELL   MORSE, 


TIMOTHY    PITKIN    CHAPMAN 
LeBARON   BRADFORD   COLT, 


WILLIAM    PALMER    DIXON 
WILLIAM   DURANT, 


EDWARD   JEFFERSON  TYTUS 


JOHN    HOWARD   WILSON, 
WILLIAM   CURTIS   WOOD, 


HENRY    PARKS    WRIGHT, 


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AFTERNOON. 

1.  Music  :  Overture,  Massaniello. — Aubur. 

2.  Latin  Oration,  "  De  Cieeronis  amore  erga  lilium,"  by  Henry  Parks 
Wright,  Oakham,  Mass. 

3.  Dissertation,  "The  Slave  ^Ship  and  the  Pilgrim  Ship,"  by  Charles 
Edwin  Searls,  Thompson. 

4.  Dissertation,  "Rome  in  the  time  of  Cicero,"  by  Thomas  Fenner 
Wentworth,  Greenland,,  A7".  H. 

5.  Music:  Selection,  Fra  Diavolo. — Aubur. 

6.  Oration,  "Thomas  Chalmers,"  by  Samuel  Parry,  Clinton,  KJ. 

7.  Poem,  u  The  Pleasures  of  Mystery,"  by  Elisha  Wright  Miller,  WU- 
lisloii,  Vt. 

8.  Oration,  "Silent  Influence,"  by  Isbon  Thaddeus  Beckwith,  Old  Lyme. 

9.  Music:  Cavatina,  Nabucco. —  Verdi. 

10.  Dissertation,  "The  Anglo-Saxon  Race,"  by  Henry  Collins  Wood- 
ruff, Brooklyn.,  N.  Y. 

11.  Oration,  H  The  Quaker  Settlers  of  Pennsylvania,"  by  Thomas  Wilson 
Pierce,  West  Chester,  Ri. 

12.  Music:  Selections,  Preciosa. —  Von  Weber. 

13.  Oration,  "Everett  and   Pericles — their  Funeral  Orations,"  by  John 
Kinne  Hyde  DeForest,  Lyme. 

14.  Dissertation,  "  Thorcau,"  by  Cornelius  DuBois,  RmgJikeepsie,  A'.  Y. 

15.  Music:  Samiel  Polka—  Tm  Flcur. 

16.  Oration,  "Daniel  Webster,"    by  Edward  Alexander  Lawrence, 
Orford,  N.  H. 

17.  Philosophical  Oration,  "American  Reform,"  by  John  Lewis,  Awf/M/. 

18.  Music:  Athalia  March.— -Meyerbeer. 


EVENING 


1.  Music  :  Overture,  Poet  und  Peasant. — Suppe. 

2.  Greek  Oration,  "'H  tG)v  ' Elh\voiv  fivdoloyla"  by  William  Curtis 
Wood,  Salara,  India. 

3.  Oration,  "  Puritan  Intolerance,"  by  Timothy  Pitkin  Chapman,  Bridge- 
port. 

4.  Dissertation,   u  Terribly  in  Earnest,"  by   Richard  Austin   Rice,  New 
Haven. 

5.  Music  :  Selections,  Crispino. — Iticci. 

6.  Oration,  "The  Statesmanship  of  Edmund  Burke,"  by  James  Kingslet 
Thacher,  New  Haven. 

7.  Oration,  "National  Music,"  by  John  Howard  Websteu,  Cleveland,  0. 

8.  Oration,  "  The  Fruits  of  the  War,"  by   Robert  Allen  Hume,  New 
Haven. 

9.  Music  :  Quartette  Rigolctto.—  Verdi. 

10.  Dissertation,  "  The  New  German  Empire,"  by  Charles  Henry  Far- 
nam,  Chicago,  III. 

11.  Oration,  "  J.  G.  Percival,"  by  Silas  Augustus  Davenport,  Elizabeth, 
N.J. 

12.  Music:  Rail  Road  Galop.— Ountjl. 

13.  Oration,  "  Samuel  Adams,"  by  James  Coffin,  Irvington,  N.  Y. 

14.  Oration,  "  The  Right  of  the  President  to  a  Policy,"  by  George  Henry 
Lewis,  New  Britain. 

15.  Music  :  Serenade,  Don  Pasquale. — Donizetti. 

16.  Oration,  "  The  Age  and  its  Ideas,"  by  Chauncey  Bunce  Brewster, 
Mount  Carniel. 

17.,  Philosophical   Oration,   "  Reform   in   England,"    by    Anson   Phelps 
Tinker,  Old  Lyme. 

18.  Music:  Potpourri,  L'Etoilc  du  Nord.— Meyerbeer. 


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THE  FOUR  COLLEGE  YEARS  23 

about  sixty-seven  per  cent,  of  the  class,  a  very  large  proportion 
for  that  age  of  severe  marking. 

Junior  Exhibition  was  held  on  Wednesday,  April  3.  The 
exercises  occupied  the  afternoon  and  evening1. 

The  Junior  Promenade  Concert  at  Music  Hall,  on  the  evening 
preceding  the  Junior  Exhibition,  was  well  patronized  and,  as 
usual,  was  pronounced  unsurpassed.  The  Prom.  Committee, 
which  had  charge  of  both  events,  consisted  of  Abbott,  Bragg, 
Chapman,  L.  B.  Colt,  Dixon,  Durant,  MacGregor,  Morse,  Tytus, 
J.  H.  Wilson,  W.  C.  Wood  and  Wright. 

Another  distinguished  guest  honored  the  college  by  his 
presence.  On  June  27,  President  Johnson,  accompanied  by 
Secretary  of  State  William  H.  Seward  and  Postmaster-General 
Randall,  visited  New  Haven,  and  was  received  by  the  Faculty 
in  the  College  Library,  from  the  steps  of  which  the  President 
and  Secretary  Seward  addressed  the  students. 

At  a  meeting  held  in  the  President's  Lecture  Room  on  January 
19,  1867,  the  class  elected  Ayres,  J.  Lewis,  Linn,  McKinney  and 
Tinker  editors  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine;  and  Berry,  Bing- 
ham, Dixon,  I.  C.  Hall,  Manierre,  Parsons,  Sloane,  Tweedy  and 
Tytus  members  of  the  Spoon  Committee. 

Hume,  Welles  and  Walcott  were  appointed  editors  of  the 
Yale  C  our  ant  for  the  college  year  1867-68.  Thirty-six  members 
of  Sixty-eight  made  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  which  then  took  in  all 
men  who  had  Philosophical,  High  Oration,  Oration,  and  Disser- 
tation rank  on  the  Junior  Appointment  List. 

The  W'ooden  Spoon  Exhibition,  from  the  "Strawberry" 
opening  load  to  the  ''Tragedy  of  Antigone,"  was  in  every  way 
creditable,  and  was  said  to  be  fully  equal  to  any  previous  exhibi- 
tion. Sloane  gave  the  Latin  salutatory,  and  Dixon  made  the 
presentation  speech.  The  Colloquy,  "Love  and  Ambition,"  was 
written  by  Viele,  and  "The  Tragedy  of  Antigone,"   by  Means. 


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Parry,  Coffin  and  Ferry  were  on  the  University  Crew,  which 
rowed  against  Harvard  on  Lake  Quinsigamond  at  Worcester 
on  Friday,  July  19,  1867.  Hall  and  Fowler  were  also  strong 
candidates  for  positions  on  this  Crew.  We  lost  the  University 
race,  but  as  we  came  away  from  Worcester,  we  pretended  to 
feel  satisfied,  since  Yale  had  been  successful  there  in  two  matches 
with  Harvard  in  baseball,  played  by  the  Nines  of  the  Classes  of 
Sixty-nine  and  Seventy,  and  in  the  Freshman  race. 

Senior  Year 

The  studies  of  Senior  year  outweighed  in  interest  and  import- 
ance all  that  had  preceded.  The  class  was  divided  alphabetically 
into  two  divisions,  and  recited,  immediately  after  prayers,  to 
President  Woolsey  and  to  Professor  Porter,  alternately,  each  of 
whom  also  lectured  twice  in  the  week  at  5  p.  m.  The  President 
gave  instruction  in  History,  Political  Economy,  Civil  Liberty  and 
International  Law ;  Professor  Porter,  in  Mental  and  Moral 
Philosophy,  Theism  and  Evidences  of  Christianity.  From  these 
two  eminent  scholars  we  received  two-thirds  of  all  our  instruction 
during  the  entire  year.  Professor  Dana  also  took  the  class  in 
Geology,  Professor  Loomis  finished  Astronomy,  Professor 
Thacher  read  the  Pro  Clucntio,  and  Professor  Barker  continued 
his  course  in  Chemistry,  ending  it  with  a  series  of  lectures  in  the 
Old  Laboratory.  An  option  was  offered  between  Meteorology 
under  Professor  Loomis  and  German  under  Professor  Coe. 
Professor  Hadley  delivered  a  course  of  twelve  lectures  on  Roman 
Law,  which  were  afterwards  published.  Doctor  Porter's  lectures 
were  published  in  1868,  under  the  title  of  ''The  Human  Intellect," 
and  this  work  was  used  as  a  text-book  for  the  Senior  class  for 
more  than  twenty-five  years. 

During  the  summer  vacation  of  1867,  the  horse  railroad  was 
opened  to  West  Haven,  starting  at  the  corner  of  Church  and 
Chapel  Streets  and  terminating  at  Bassett's  Grove  near  Savin 
Rock.  The  beginning  of  Senior  year  was  marked  by  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  College  Post  Office,  in  the  reading  room  in  South 
Middle.  In  November  of  this  year  eight  bath  rooms  were  con- 
structed in  that  part  of  the  basement  of  the  Gymnasium  where 
the  files  of  newspapers  had  been  kept  before  the  new  reading 
room  was  established.     The  publication  of  the  annual  catalogue 


PRESIDENT   T.    D.    WOOLSEY 


PROFESSOR    NOAH    PORTER 


DR.    G.    J.    STOECKEL 


PROFESSOR    W.    D.    WHITNEY 


DR.    L.    J  .    SANFORD 


PROFESSOR    E.    B.    COE 


THE   FOUR    COLLEGE   YEARS  27 

showed  six  hundred  and  eighty  students  in  Yale,  representing 
thirty-five  states  or  countries:  five  hundred  and  two  in  the 
Academical  Department  and  one  hundred  and  seventy-eight  in 
the  other  departments. 

The  kind  and  amount  of  interruption  to  which  the  occupants 
of  the  Old  Brick  Row  were  subjected  in  the  sixties  may  be 
appreciated  by  reading  the  following  notice  posted  on  the  door 
of  a  room  in  North  College  in  our  Senior  year : 

NOTA  BENE 
Persons  are  requested  to  read  the  following  before  rapping. — 

The  occupants  of  98  North  College  wish  to  inform  that  class  known 
as  college  bores  : — 

1.  That  we  are  not  in. 

2.  That  we  have  no  old  clothes  to  sell.  We  know  that  it  is  a  "fine 
day."  We  do  not  want  "spittoon  cleaned."  We  are  supplied  with 
"matches  for  the  gentlemen."  We  never  eat  peanuts,  ice  cream,  apples, 
or  anything  else — "fine,  old-fashioned,  excellent,  home-made,  superior 
molasses  candy"  not  excepted.  We  have  no  need  for  patent  buttons  or 
any  other  patents.  We  have  subscribed  for  Harper's  latest  publications 
and  for  all  the  latest  editions  of  everything.  We  do  not  want  any  photo- 
graphs of  distinguished  individuals — no  profiles  of  ourselves.  We 
propose  to  make  no  improvements  on  the  college  buildings. 

3.  We  sympathize  with  widows  who  have  sick  babies,  and  with  crip- 
ples who  have  lost  their  fortunes  and  homes.  They  will  please  remember 
our  first  point.  Worn-out  sailors  are  recommended  to  the  Sailors' 
Home.  Negroes  desirous  of  establishing  churches  for  their  "deluded 
brudderin  in  de  Souf"    are  informed  that  we  are  copperheads. 

4.  Divines  and  tutors  are  politely  requested  not  to  call  unless  cir- 
cumstances seem  to  demand  it — should  our  stand  rise  above  High  Oration 
or  our  morals  above  the  general  average,  a  caution  from  the  above  will 
be  promptly  attended  to  and  obeyed. 

Recapitulation.  We  are  not  in;  we  want  no  visits  from  old  clothes' 
men,  beggars,  quack  agents,  peddlers,  or  any  other  of  the  many  bores 
which  infest  this  college. 

P.  S.  Those  persons  who  will  persist  in  using  the  rug  before  this 
door  are  requested  to  be  as  quiet  as  possible  during  the  operation.  It 
is  desirable  that  all  loud  talk  be  dispensed  with  in  front  of  this  room. 

Early  in  the  first  term,  Parry  was  elected  Commodore  of  the 
Yale  Navy,  and  during  the  term,  Dixon,  Durant,  Linn  and 
Tweedy  were  chosen  to  represent  the  class  on  the  Thanksgiving. 
Jubilee  Committee.  At  a  class  meeting  held  Wednesday,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1867,  Eastburn,  Coats,  Wright,  G.  H.  Lewis  and  Hume 


THE   FOUR    COLLEGE   YEARS  29 

were  elected  Committee  on  Class  Pictures;  Abbott,  Bingham, 
Brewster,  Coffin,  Cowell,  DeForest,  Durant,  Greene,  Hamilton, 
Linn,  Shelton  and  Tweedy  were  chosen  Class  Day  Committee; 
and  Hume  was  elected  Class  Secretary.  In  the  Society  Elections 
for  the  first  term,  Cooper  was  chosen  President  and  Chapin, 
Vice-President  of  Linonia;  Welles,  President  and  N.  Thomas, 
Vice-President  of  Brothers.  For  the  second  term,  Chapin  was 
chosen  President  and  Coats,  Vice-President  of  Linonia;    Ayres, 


OLD    LABORATORY 

President  and  Eastburn,  Vice-President  of  Brothers.  For  the 
third  term  McKinney  was  chosen  President  and  Moore,  Vice- 
President  of  Linonia ;  Bailey,  President  and  S.  A.  Davenport, 
Vice-President  of  Brothers. 

Twenty-four  members  of   the  class  took   part   in  the  Senior 
Prize  Debates.     The  awards  were  : 

Linonia:  ist  Prizes,  Brewster  and  J.  Lewis;  2d  Prizes, 
McKinney  and  G.  Lewis;   3d  Prize,  E.  W.  Miller. 

Brothers:  ist  Prize,  S.  A.  Davenport ;  2d  Prizes,  Beckwith  and 
Tinker;   3d  Prize,  Hume. 


30  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Forty-three  members  of  Sixty-eight,  or  more  than  one-third, 
competed  in  one  or  more  of  the  Society  prize  debates,  twenty- 
six  in  Brothers  and  seventeen  in  Linonia.  Ayres,  S.  A.  Daven- 
port, Hume,  G.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  Morse,  Varnum  and  Welles 
were  competitors  in  each  of  the  four  college  years;  Beckwith, 
Brewster,  Coats,  Rawson,  N.  Thomas,  Tinker,  Watson  and 
Woodruff  took  part  in  three  debates ;  Coffin,  Colt,  F.  H.  Holmes, 
Hopke,  Lawrence,  Linn,  Loomis,  Means,  E.  W.  Miller,  Welch, 
W.  C.  Wood,  in  two;  Bailey,  Birney,  Chapin,  DeForest,  Ferry, 
Edwards,  McKinney,  Moore,  Parsons,  Searls,  Seagrave,  South- 
worth,  J.  Thomas,  Webster,  B.  Wilson,  J.  Wilson,  in  one. 

In  the  training  for  the  fall  races  which  took  place  in  the 
harbor  on  October  16,  Ferry  (stroke),  DeForest  and  Parsons 
rowed  in  the  Varuna  shell;  McKinney  (stroke),  Morse,  Page  and 
Rawson  in  the  Varuna  gig.  In  the  Glyuna  shell  were  Bingham 
(stroke),  de  Kay  and  Fowler.  The  shell  races  were  given  up 
because  Varuna  could  not  obtain  a  shell  in  which  to  row,  her 
own  shell  having  been  badly  injured  at  Worcester.  The  gig  race 
was  won  by  Glyuna. 

As  we  moved  up  to  the  place  of  honor  on  the  Fence,  we  felt 
the  responsibility  of  age  and  position,  and  began  some  plans  of 
reform.  Spasmodic  efforts  had  been  made  every  year  since  we 
entered  college  to  revive  interest  in  the  open  societies,  and  in  our 
Senior  year  all  electioneering  was  dispensed  with,  and  the 
"Statement  of  Facts"  was  restored,  the  Freshmen  being  left  to 
make  their  choice  between  Linonia  and  Brothers  without  private 
influence.  The  Committee  to  arrange  for  the  "Statement  of 
Facts"  consisted  of  McKinney  and  Linn.  The  meeting  was 
held  in  Brothers  Hall,  which  was  filled  to  its  utmost  capacity. 
Brewster  and  Coats  had  been  chosen,  with  Heaton  of  Sixty-nine, 
to  represent  Linonia,  and  Hume  and  Ayres,  with  Sperry  of 
Sixty-nine,  to  represent  Brothers.  After  the  arguments  were 
closed,  the  Freshmen  deposited  their  choices,  and  it  was  found 
that  Linonia  had  won  a  great  victory,  having  secured  thirty-one 
Freshmen,  while  Brothers  had  captured  only  thirty.  A  respect- 
able portion  of  our  class  also  attended  the  meetings  conscien- 
tiously, and  took  some  part  in  the  exercises,  but  no  permanent 
improvement  followed,  and  after  a  few  years  the  societies 
existed  only  in  name. 

Another  effort  at  reform  resulted  more  successfully.  After 
much   discussion   in   the   Con  rant,    several   meetings,   and   many 


THE   FOUR   COLLEGE   YEARS 


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conferences  with  interested  graduates,  the  club  system  in  boat- 
ing was  given  up  and  the  old  class  system  restored.  Commodore 
Parry  and  B.  A.  Fowler  were  the  working  members  of  the 
committee  which  brought  about  this  change.  The  property  of 
the  Varuna,  Glyuna,  and  Undine  Clubs  was  divided  between  the 
several  classes  in  proportion  to  their  contributions  to  the  Navy. 
Parry  was  made    President  of  the   Navy  under  the  new  consti- 


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YALE    GYMNASIUM 


tution,  and  McKinney,  Treasurer.     Parry  was,   for  the  second 
year,  stroke  oar  of  the  University  Crew. 

On  February  16  the  class  organized  the  Sixty-eight  Boat  Club. 
Bingham  was  elected  Captain,  Parsons  Lieutenant,  and  Page 
Treasurer.  In  the  spring  races,  rowed  in  the  harbor  on  June  30, 
the  Sixty-eight  crews  were  made  up  as  follows : 

Shell — Bingham     (stroke),    Page,    de    Kay,    Coffin,    Fowler, 

Parsons  (bow). 
Gig — McKinney  (stroke),  Morse,  Tweedy,  Boardman,  DeFor- 

est,  Rice  (bow). 
Sixty-nine  won  in  both  races. 


32  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Welch,  Instructor  in  Gymnastics, 
two  Gymnastic  Exhibitions  were  given  in  March  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Yale  Navy,  at  which  de  Kay,  Morse  and  Rawson  were 
captains  of  the  most  important  classes.  Several  members  of  the 
Faculty  were  present  with  their  families,  among-  them  President 
Woolsey,  Professors  Thacher,  Porter  and  Bailey. 

The  improvement  in  the  Lit  was  very  manifest.  The  leaders 
were  more  generally  upon  University  topics  and  had  an  influence 
upon  college  sentiment.  But  the  greatest  change  was  in  the 
Editor's  Table,  which,  under  the  management  of  the  Sixty-eight 
Board,  treated  of  matters  of  general  interest  in  an  entertaining- 
way.  During  this  year  the  Lit  came  out  regularly  on  the 
appointed  day,  the  second  Saturday  of  each  month.  The  C our  ant 
also,  under  the  Sixty-eight  Board,  had  a  better  tone,  and  there- 
fore a  wider  influence.  No  college  paper  ever  took  a  nobler  stand 
upon  questions  of  college  morals.  In  the  bestowal  of  class  honors, 
we  aimed  to  select  the  best  men,  and  planned  for  a  Class  Day 
that  would  be  free  from  all  objectionable  features.  Brewster 
was  chosen  Class  Orator,  and  Linn,  Class  Poet.  The  Parting 
Ode  was  written  by  Viele,  and  the  Ivy  Song  by  Linn. 

Townsend  Premiums  were  awarded  to  G.  Lewis,  McKinney, 
E.  W.  Miller,  Rawson,  and  Tinker.  The  DeForest  Prize  Speak- 
ing took  place  in  the  Chapel  on  the  afternoon  of  Monday,  June 
29,  before  an  audience  that  filled  the  house,  including  the  gal- 
leries. The  DeForest  Medal  was  awarded  to  Beckwith  (by  lot 
between  Beckwith  and  G.  Lewis). 

Senior  awards  in  English  Composition  were  made: 

1  st  Prizes  to  Beckwith,  Brewster,  S.  A.  Davenport,  J.  Lewis, 

E.  W.  Miller,  Wright. 
2d  Prizes  to  Ayres,  Lawrence,  G.  Lewis,  McKinney,  Thacher, 

Tinker,  W.  C  Wood. 

Our  Class  Day  was  Wednesday,  July  i,  three  weeks  before 
Commencement.  The  oration  and  poem  were  given  unqualified 
praise,  and  the  histories  were  creditable  alike  to  the  historians 
and  to  the  class.  Following  the  literary  exercises  in  the  chapel 
on  Wednesday  morning  came  the  annual  collation  to  the  gradu- 
ating class,  in  Alumni  Hall,  at  which  President  Woolsey  pre- 
sided. The  histories  were  read  in  the  afternoon  under  the 
elms  on  the  campus,  in   front  of  South  Middle  and  the  Athe- 


THE  FOUR  COLLEGE  YEARS  33 

neum.  After  planting  the  Class  Ivy,  bidding  farewell  to  each 
of  the  buildings  in  the  Old  Brick  Row,  and  marching  to  the 

homes  of  President  Woolsey,  and  Professors  Porter,  Daggett  and 
Dana,  each  of  whom  spoke  briefly  in  response,  the  class  gathered 
in  a  circle  on  the  campus  in  front  of  Alumni  Hall,  for  the  final 
leave-taking-,  and  the  undergraduate  life  of  Sixty-eight  was 
closed.  ( hi  the  following'  day  the  three  lower  classes  were 
assigned  new  seats  in  the  College  Chapel  and  Sixty-nine  took 
our  places  in  the  Senior  Aisle. 


PARTING  ODE 

By  Sheldon  T.  Viele,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Air: — Auld  Lang  Sync. 

Four  fleeting  years  of  hopes  and  fears, 

Has  our  affection  grown  ; 
But  now  we  part,  rend  heart  from  heart, 

And  each  goes  out  alone. 
The  joyous  hours  of  youth  and  flowers, 

Together  we  have  spent ; 
But  now  the  strife  of  daily  life 

Must  hold  each  one  intent. 

Forth  go  we  now  with  eager  brow, 
With  hope  and  purpose  bright, 

To  share  the  joys,  the  heat  and  noise, 
These  walls  shut  from  our  sight; 

Though  some  may  fail,  and  some  prevail, 
'Tis  but  the  common  end, 

We'll  bear  it  then,  like  brave,  true  men- 
May  God  us  all  defend. 

But  ere  we  part,  though  tears  may  start 

From  eyes  unused  to  weep, 
We  raise  the  song  we've  sung  so  long, 

And  bid  our  sorrow  sleep; 
And  as  again  the  dear  refrain 

Is  heard  from  each  Classmate, 
'Twill  sadly  tell  our  last  farewell 

To  Yale  and  Sixty-Eight! 


34  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Beginning-  with  Sixty-eight,  a  change  was  made  in  the  Com- 
mencement exercises.  The  number  of  speakers  was  limited  to 
sixteen,  and  all  exercises  were  to  be  held  in  the  forenoon,  leaving 
the  afternoon  free  for  the  Alumni  Dinner.  Any  man  with  the 
rank  of  Dissertation  or  above  was  allowed  to  compete  for  a  place 
on  the  program.  We  were  graduated  on  July  28,  with  seventy- 
four  appointments  in  a  class  of  one  hundred  and  five,  and  with 
nine  men  of  philosophical  rank ;  though  the  Faculty,  in  order 
to  make  the  classes  seem  more  nearly  equal  in  scholarship,  allowed 
us  only  six  Philosophicals  and  drew  the  line  of  the  lowest  appoint- 
ment at  2.55  instead  of  at  the  usual  2.50.  If  all  above  2.50  had 
been  included,  as  was  generally  done  in  other  classes,  the  number 
of  Senior  appointments  would  have  been  eighty-one.  Commence- 
ment exercises  were  held  in  the  Center  Church  on  Thursday, 
July  23,  beginning  at  10  A.  m. 

Sixty-eight  had  been  severely  disciplined  in  its  first  two  years, 
but  we  had  the  satisfaction  of  being  told  by  President  Woolsey 
and  more  than  one  other  officer,  at  graduation,  that  Yale  College 
had  never  sent  forth  a  better  class.  The  Faculty  continued  to 
think  well  of  us.  Three  members  of  the  class  were  elected  as 
Tutors  one  year  after  graduation,  and  an  unusually  large  number 
have  been  invited  to  serve  as  college  officers.  The  names  of  ten 
members  of  Sixty-eight  appear  on  the  lists  of  Professors,  Tutors, 
and  Assistants  that  make  up  the  faculties  of  the  University. 

During  our  entire  course  we  were  under  the  instruction  of 
twenty  different  officers,  of  whom  fifteen  are  now  dead :  Gov- 
ernor Dutton  died  in  1869,  Professor  Hadley  in  1872,  Professor 
Thacher  in  1886,  Mr.  Otis  in  1888,  President  Woolsey  and  Pro- 
fessor Loomis  in  1889,  Professor  (afterwards  President)  Porter 
in  1892,  Professor  Whitney  in  1894,  Professor  Dana  in  1895, 
Professor  Newton  and  Dr.  Sanford  in  1896,  Professor  Marsh  in 
1899,  Professor  Barker  in  1910,  Professor  Bailey  in  191 1,  and 
Professor  Coe  in  1914.  Two  left  Yale  to  accept  positions  else- 
where: Professor  Northrop  to  become  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Minnesota,  Professor  Coe  to  be  pastor  of  the  Collegiate 
Church  in  New  York  City.  The  other  officers  remained  long  at 
Yale:  Mr.  Wright  as  Professor  of  Physics,  Mr.  Dexter  as  Sec- 
retary of  the  University  and  Assistant  Librarian.  Mr.  Peck  as 
Professor  of  Latin,  and  Mr.  Kitchel  as  Instructor  in  Greek  and 
Secretary  of  the  Bureau  of  Appointments. 


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ORDER    m  EXlECISIi 


1.  Music:  Overture,  Midsummer  Night's  dream. — Mendelssohn. 

2.  Prater. 

3.  Salutatory  Oration   in  Latin,  by  William  Curtis  "Wood, 
Satara,  India. 

4.  Dissertation,  "  Ritualism,"  by  Edward  Spencer  Mead,  New 
York  City. 

5.  Dissertation,  "The  Pacific  Railroad,"  by  Roger  Butler 
Williams,  Ithaca,  JV.  Y. 

6.  Music:  Serenade. — Schubert. 

7.  Dissertation,  "  Henry  IV.  of  France,"  by  Charles  Henry 
I^arnham,  Chicago,  III. 

8.  Oration,  "  Civil  Service  in  the  United  States,"  by  George 
Henry  Lewis,*  Nexo  Britain. 

9.  Oration,     "Monumental    History,"    by    Timothy    Pitkin 
Chapman,  Bridgeport. 

10.  Music:  Arion  Fest  klaenge. —  Grill. 

11.  Oration,  "Arnold  of  Brescia,"  by  Edward  Alexander 
Lawrence,  Orford,  JV.  H. 

12.  Oration,  "Christopher  North,"  by  Robert  Allen  Hi»ie, 
New  Haven. 

13.  Music :  Overture,  Der  Freischiitz. —  Weber. 

14.  Oration,  "  The  Overthrow  of  the  Roman  Empire,"  by  Silas 
Augustus  Davenport,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

15.  Dissertation,  "Saint  Paul,"  by  William  Allison  McKin- 
ney,  Binghainton,  JV.  Y. 

*  Excused  on  account  of  sickness. 


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During  which  the  Fifth  Symphony  of  Beethoven  will  be  performed. 


16.  Philosophical  Oration,  "  History  a  Manifestation  of  a  Plan 
of  God,"  by  Elisha  Wright  Miller,  Williston,  Vt 

1 7.  Oration,  "  The  Demands  of  the  Present  Age  on  its  Scholars," 
by  Isbon  Thaddeus  Beck  with,  Old  Lyme. 

18.  Music:  Overture,  Fra  Diabolo. — Auber. 

19.  Philosophical  Oration,  "The  Future  of  Republicanism,"  by 
Anson  Phelps  Tinker,  Old  Lyme, 

20.  Oration,  "  The  Relation  of  Christianity  to  Art,"  by  Chaun- 
cby  Bunce  Brewster,  Mount  Garmel. 

21.  Music:   Serenade  from  the  Midsummer  Night's  dream. — 
Mendelssohn. 

22.  Oration,  "  Christianity  the  True  Philosophy,"  with  the  Vale- 
dictory Address,  by  Henry  Parks  Wright,  Oakham,  Mass. 

23.  Music:  Overture,  Studentenleben. — titoec/cel. 

24.  Degrees  Conferred. 

25.  Prayer  by  the  President. 


HONORS. 


ORATIONS. 

Henry  Parks  Wright,  Valedictory  Oration,  Oakham,  Mass. 
William  Curtis  Wood,  Salutatory  Oration,  Salara,  India. 
Algernon  Sydney  Biddle,  Philosophical  Oration,  Philadelphia,  Ih. 
John  Lewis,  Philosophical  Oration,  Suffleld. 
Anson  Phelps  Tinker,  Philosophical  Oration,  Old  Lyme. 
Elisha  Wright  Miller,  Philosophical  Oration,  Williston,  VI. 

Silas  Augustas  Davenport,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.\ James  Collin,  Irvhujton,  N.  Y. 
\  Thomas  Wilson  Pierce,  WcstChcslcr.  Ik.  Chaunccy  Bunco  Brewster,  Mount  Carmcl. 


\  Oscar  Harder,  Oxford 

i  Timothy  Pitkin  Chapman,  Bridgeport. 

\  Edward  Alexan'r  Lawrence,  Orfo'rd, N.1I. 


Chaunccy 

Isbon  Thaddeus  Beckwithj  Old  Lyme. 

George  Henry  Lewis,  New  Britain. 


Robert  Allen  Hume,  New  Hanoi  [John  Kinne  Hyde  DeForcst,  Lyme. 

James  Kingslcy  Thachcr,  New  Haven.         Francis  Eugene  Scagrave,  Uxbridgc,  Mass. 
John  Leonard  Varick,  Poughkecpsic,  N.  Y.  Julius  William  Russell,  Burlington,   Vt. 
Thomas  Ilamlen  Robbins,  Iiocky  Hill.        I 


DISSERTATIONS. 


\  Samuel  Tweedy,  Banbury. 
(  John  Howard  Wilson,  Natick,Mass. 
Samuel  Parry,  Clinton,  N.  J. 
J  Edward  Spencer  Mead,  Ncio  York  City. 
\  Henry  Collins  Woodruff,  Brooklyn,N.  Y. 
Charles  Henry  Farnham,  Chicago,  Bl. 


\  Samuel  Watson,  Nashville,  Tcnu. 
\  Cornelius  DuBois,  Poughkecpsic,  N.    Y. 
)  George  Eastburn,  Lahaska,  Pa. 
(  George  Albert  Newell,  Medina,  N.  Y. 
John  Howard  Webster,  Cleveland,  O. 


DISPUTES. 


Joseph  Warren  Greene,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.\ Charles  Edwin  Scarls,  IViompson 


(  Thomas  Fcnncr  Wcntworth,  Greenland. 

N.JL 
David  McGregor  Means,  Andcver,  Ma 
Frank  Bradley  Lewis,  Bridgeport. 
Horace  Phillips,  Dayton,  6. 


Roger  Butler  Williams,  Bhaca,  N.  Y 

j  Albert  Henry  Esty,  Bhaca,  N.  Y. 

(  Thomas  Chalmers  Sloanc^Vto  York  City,   j 

i  James  Whitin  Abbott,  Yarmouth,  Me. 

<  William  Henry  Ferry,  Chicago,  III. 


f  Frank  Moore,  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

I  1  I o race  StcphcnsCooper,,S7<e%»i7fc,  Tain, 

{ Calvin  Daniel  Stowell,  Ithaca,  N.  Y 

{Beach  Hill,  New  Haven. 
Gideon  Iliggins  Welch,  New  Haven. 
Coburn  Dewecs  Berry,  Nashville,  Tom. 
Henry  Stuart  Swayne,  Columbus,  O. 


William  Allison  McKinncy,  Binghamton, 

N.  Y. 
(  Edward  Green  Bradford,   Wilmington, 
\      IM. 

j  Nathaniel  Phillips  Smith  Thomas,  Wkk- 
j     ford,  B.  I. 
Richard  Austin  Rice,  New  Haven. 


COLLOQUIES. 


William  Alexander  Linn,  Dcckerloion,  N.J. 
Oliver  Cromwell  Morse,  New  Haven. 
Charles  Page,  Valparaiao^  Chili. 

Herbert  Boardmau,  Trumanslrurgh,  N.  Y. 
Stephen  Goodhue  Bailey,  Louxll,  Mass. 
Ira  Cole  Hall,  Covert,  N.  Y. 
Thomas  Clayton  Welles,  U'dhcrsficld. 
John  Coats,  North  Stoningtom. 

\  Henry  Lucius  Wash  l>u  n  \, St  (iJfordS/)  rings. 

(  James  Henry  Wood,  New  York  City. 


\  Charles  William  Bingham,  Cleveland, 0. 
j  Horatio  Greene  Yates,  I-.'lmiru,  N.  Y. 
Benjamin  Austin  Fowler,  S(oucham,Jfttss. 
( William    Abbott    Hamilton,    Saratoga 

Springs,  N.   Y. 
I  William  Parsons,  Lark  Jfarni,  Pa. 
[Edward  Kirk  Kawson,  Albany* If.  Y. 

George  Hubert  Cowell,  Wdtertwy. 

""illiain  Durant,  WaUnlleL  X.   Y. 
lines  Trimble,  Nashville,  Tain. 


(Jn 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION 

Since  graduation,  Sixty-eight  has  had  ten  Reunions  in  New 
Haven.  There  was  a  meeting  also  of  those  who  attended  the 
Bicentennial  Celebration  in  1901  ;  and  several  met,  by  Varick's 
friendly  invitation,  at  the  University  Club  in  New  York  City  on 
December  1,  19 10.  Bingham  has  been  present  at  every  meeting 
of  the  class;  Cowell  attended  every  meeting  during  his  lifetime; 
and  Shelton  every  meeting,  including  Bicentennial,  until  pre- 
vented by  his  last  illness.  Linn,  Newell,  Webster,  Woodruff,  and 
Wright  have  missed  only  one  Reunion.  Fifteen  on  our  list  in  the 
Quinquennial  Catalogue  have  not  attended  any  meeting  of  the 
Class  of  Sixty-eight  since  its  graduation. 

At  Triennial,  July  12,  1871,  seventy-two  members  were 
present : 

Abbott,  Allen,  Bacon,  Beckwith,  Berry,  Biddle,  Bingham,  Boardman, 
Bradford,  Bragg,  Brewster,  Chapin,  Clark,  Coffin,  Colt,  Cooper,  Cowell, 
Davenport,  DeForest,  de  Kay,  Dixon,  DuBois,  Durant,  Eastburn,  Farnam, 
Fisher,  Fowler,  Hamilton,  Holcomb,  F.  H.  Holmes,  Homes,  Hume, 
Ingersoll,  F.  B.  Lewis,  Linn,  MacGregor,  McKinney,  Marsh,  Mead,  Miller. 
Moore,  Newell,  Parry,  Parsons,  Pierce,  Rawson,  R.  L.  Reade,  Robbins, 
Searls,  Shelton,  Sloane,  Spencer,  Stowell,  Thacher,  Thomas,  Tinker, 
Tweedy,  Varick,  Viele,  Walcott,  Washburn,  Webster,  Welles,  Wentworth. 
Wesson,  Wheeler,  H.  S.  Williams,  Wilson,  J.  H.  Wood,  Woodruff, 
Wright,  Yates. 

The  class  banquet  was  served  at  the  New  Haven  House. 
Wheeler  was  chosen  to  preside.  It  was  the  custom  then  to  have, 
at  Triennial,  set  speeches  from  several  members  of  the  class  who 
represented  the  different  professions  and  occupations,  or  who 
were  qualified  to  speak  on  other  subjects  of  special  interest  to  a 
class  three  years  out  of  college.  Linn  read  a  poem  on  "The 
Class  Boy,"  and  toasts  were  responded  to  as  follows :  "Alma 
Mater,"  Wright;  "Class  of  Sixty-eight,"  Linn;  "The  Faculty," 
Beckwith;  "Theology,"  Tinker;  "The  Law,"  Wentworth; 
"Medicine,"  Bacon;  "The  Press,"  McKinney;  "Teaching," 
Wilson;  "The  Business  Men,"  Sloane;  "The  Married  Men," 
Dixon ;     "The    Bachelors,"     Parsons ;     "The    Non-Graduates," 


4-0  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Wesson;  "The  Absentees,"  Rawson.  The  poem  and  speeches 
were  printed  in  the  Class  Book  published  in  1872. 

At  this  time  all  the  graduates  were  living,  and  thirteen  were 
married.  The  different  members  of  the  class  were  then  occupied 
as  follows :  thirty-two  were  practicing  law  and  six  others  were 
engaged  in  legal  studies;  fourteen  were  students  of  theology, 
four  of  whom  were  settled  in  the  ministry  the  following  year; 
three  were  studying  medicine,  and  two  were  already  practicing 
physicians ;  twenty-six  were  engaged  in  business ;  four  were 
tutors  at  Yale,  and  eight  were  giving  instruction  at  other  institu- 
tions;  three  were  carrying  on  graduate  study  at  Yale  and  five 
were  studying  abroad ;  two  were  engaged  in  editorial  work,  two 
were  civil  engineers,  and  two  were  unable  to  undertake  any  con- 
tinuous employment  on  account  of  ill-health. 

Thirty-two  members  registered  at  Sexennial,  June  24,  1874: 

Abbott,  Bingham,  Brewster,  Coats,  Cooper,  Cowell,  DeForest, 
Dixon,  Durant,  Farnam,  Fisher,  Greene,  Harger,  Hume,  Ingersoll,  G. 
Lewis,  Marsh,  Parry,  Shelton,  Slay,  Southworth,  Thacher,  Tytus,  Varick, 
Varnum,  Welles,  Wesson,  Wheeler,  R.  B.  Williams,  Wilson,  W.  C 
Wood,  Wright. 

Judge  Cowell  was  chosen  to  preside  at  the  class  supper,  in 
Loomis's  Temple  of  Music.  Thirty-eight  of  the  class  were 
already  married,  and  two,  Chapin  and  Ayres,  were  dead.  Farnam 
reported  that  sixty-eight  members  of  Sixty-eight  had  subscribed 
eight  thousand  dollars  to  the  Woolsey  Fund,  an  amount 
exceeded  by  only  three  other  classes.  Seven  of  the  class  had  been 
called  to  serve  the  college  as  instructors.  Special  interest  was 
expressed  in  DeForest  and  Hume,  who  were  about  to  enter  the 
foreign  mission  field. 

The  Decennial  Meeting  was  held  June  26,  1878,  and  was 
attended  by  forty-one  members  : 

Allen,  Bacon,  Beckwith,  Berry,  Biddle,  Bingham,  Bradford,  Brewster. 
Cowell.  Dixon,  Eastburn,  Farnam,  Fisher,  Greene,  Harger,  Ingersoll, 
Lawrence,  Linn,  McKinney,  Marsh,  Moore,  Newell,  Parry,  Parsons, 
Rawson,  Seagrave,  Searls,  Shelton,  Sloane,  Southworth,  Spencer, 
Thacher,  Thomas,  Tweedy,  Yarnum.  Webster,  Wentworth,  Wesson, 
Wilson,  Wood,  Woodruff. 

Linn  presided  at  the  dinner,  which  was  served  in  one  of  the 
rooms  in  the  Insurance  Building,  and  Wentworth  and  Brewster 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  4 1 

represented  the  class  at  the  alumni  meetings  on  Wednesday  morn- 
ing, and  Thursday  afternoon. 

At    the   Quindecennial   Meeting,   June   26,    1883,   thirty-eight 
members  of  the  class  were  present : 

Bacon,  Bingham,  Brewster,  Clark,  Colt,  Cowell,  Davenport,  Farnam, 
Fisher,  Greene,  Harger,  Ingersoll,  G.  H.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  Linn,  Marsh, 
Newell,     I 'any,    Parsons,     Pierce,     Rawson,    Russell,     Seagrave,    Searls, 


SE    AVENUE 


Shelton,    Sloane,    Thacher,    Tinker,    Varick,    Varnum,    Viele,    Webster, 
Welles,  Wentworth,  Wesson,  R.  B.  Williams,  Woodruff,  Wright. 

Colt,  by  invitation  of  the  Alumni  Committee,  spoke  at  the 
alumni  meeting  on  Tuesday  morning,  and  Tinker,  at  the  request 
of  the  class,  responded  for  it  at  the  Alumni  Dinner  on  Commence- 
ment Day. 

The  class  supper  was  furnished  by  Hill  Brothers,  at  "The 
Homestead,"  at  Savin  Rock.     Judge  Colt  presided. 

The  Vicennial  Meeting,  on  June  26,  1888,  was  attended  by 
thirty-nine,  three  of  whom  had  not  met  with  the  class  since 
graduation : 


42 


THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Allen,  Bingham,  Burns,  Clark,  Cowell,  de  Kay,  Dixon,  Eastburn, 
Edwards,  Farnam,  Fisher,  Ingersoll,  Lawrence,  Linn,  McKinney,  Marsh, 
Newell,  Parry,  Pierce,  Pierson,  Rawson,  Rice,  Seagrave,  Searls,  Shelton, 
Slay,  Sloane,  Southworth,  Thacher,  Tweedy,  Yarnum,  Webster,  Went- 
worth,  Wesson,  H.  S.  Williams,  R.  B.  Williams,  Wilson,  Woodruff, 
Wrright. 

Seventy-nine  of  the  class  were  married,  and  twelve  were  dead. 
The  children  of  the  class  at  this  time  numbered  one  hundred  and 
seventv-two. 


SENIOR    FENCE 


Parry  was  selected  to  respond  for  the  class  at  the  alumni  dinner 
on  Wednesday.  This  address,  and  also  the  speeches  of  Wesson, 
Pierson,  Wright  and  Lawrence,  were  printed  in  the  Class  Book 
published  in  1889. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Farnam  gave  a  Luncheon  on  Tues- 
day, to  members  of  Sixty-eight  and  their  wives,  at  their  residence 
on  Hillhouse  Avenue. 

Yarnum  presided  at  the  class  supper,  which,  by  the  kindness  of 
Mr.    Hotchkiss,    we    were   allowed    to    hold    in    Brothers    Hal 
Informal    speeches    were   made    by    Wesson,    Pierson,    Wright, 
Sloane,  II.  S.  Williams,  Burns,  Went  worth,  Linn,  Pierce,  Cowell 


' 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  43 

and  Lawrence.  At  this  reunion  we  gathered  for  the  last  time  at 
the  Old  Fence,  which  was  removed  the  following  summer  to  make 
room  for  Osborn  Hall. 

The  Quarter-Century  Meeting,  on  June  27.  [893,  was  the 
largest  gathering  of  the  class  since  Triennial.  Forty-two  were 
present : 

Allen,  Bacon,  Berry,  Bingham,  Bradford,  Burns,  Cecil,  Cowell,  dc  Kay, 
Dixon,  Eastburn,  Farnam,  Ferry,  Greene,  Homes,  Hume,  G.  Lewis,  Linn. 
Mckinney,  Morse,  Newell,  Pierce,  Pierson,  Russell,  Shelton,  Slay,  South- 
worth,  Tweedy,  Upshur,  Varick,  Varnum,  Viele,  Walcott,  Webster,  Welch, 
Welles,  Wentworth,  H.  S.  Williams,  R.  B.  Williams,  Wilson,  Woodruff, 
Wright. 

More  than  twenty  who  had  expected  to  attend  this  reunion  were 
detained  by  professional  engagements  or  by  the  exigencies  of 
business  owing  to  the  financial  depression.  Of  the  forty-two 
present,  two  had  not  attended  a  class  meeting  since  Triennial,  and 
five  others  had  not  met  with  the  class  since  graduation. 

Berry  was  selected  to  preside  at  the  class  banquet  and  Linn  to 
represent  the  class  at  the  alumni  dinner  on  Commencement  Day. 
A  quarter-century  class  picture  was  taken  on  the  steps  of  the 
Sloane  Laboratory,  which  formed  the  frontispiece  to  the  Class 
Book  published  in  1894. 

The  banquet  was  held  in  the  rooms  of  the  University  Club, 
1018  Chapel  Street.  The  supper  was  furnished  by  Stewart.  A 
brief  history  of  the  class  for  the  last  five  years  was  given  by  the 
Secretary,  who  was  instructed  to  prepare  another  edition  of  the 
Class  Book. 

Letters  were  read  from  Abbott,  DeForest,  Page  and  Tyler. 
The  class  listened  also  to  Ferry,  who  spoke  on  the  advantages  of 
southern  California;  to  Hume,  who  was  on  furlough  from  India  ; 
to  Walcott,  who  gave  an  account  of  his  world-wide  travels ;  to 
G.  Lewis,  who  had  just  published  his  book  "National  Consolida- 
tion of  the  Railways  of  the  United  States" ;  to  Viele,  who 
described  the  work  of  the  various  charitable  organizations  with 
which  he  had  long  been  identified ;  and  to  John  Wilson,  who 
spoke  on  the  service  which  the  educated  man  owes  to  his  city. 
A  detailed  account  of  this  meeting  including  the  letters  and 
speeches  was  given  in  the  Class  Book  published  in  1894,  which 
contained  also  Hume's  address  at  the  Alumni  Meeting  on 
Tuesday. 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  45 

Reunion  of  1898.  By  the  kindness  of  Thomas  Hooker  of 
Sixty-nine,  we  obtained  the  use  of  the  New  Haven  Lawn  Club  for 
the  class  supper,  which  was  held  on  Tuesday,  June  28,  1898.  As 
Farnam  was  unable  to  act  on  the  Committee,  Dixon  and  W'ent- 
worth  took  charge  of  all  the  details. 

At  the  business  meeting  held  in  Wright's  recitation  room,  F2 
Osborn  Hall,  at  which  Webster  presided,  Varick,  Farnam,  H.  S. 
Williams,  and  the  Secretary  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  make 
arrangements  for  the  class  meeting  in  1903.  Arthur  F.  Lewis 
of  the  Class  of  1892,  son  of  F.  B.  Lewis,  came  to  this  meeting  to 
present  the  greetings  of  his  father,  who  lives  in  Montana  and  has 
not  been  able  to  attend  any  gathering  of  the  class  since  Triennial. 
Pierce  was  accompanied  by  his  son,  Thomas  W.  Pierce,  Jr.,  and 
Xewell  brought  his  six-year-old  boy,  George  Arthur  Newell,  who 
was  also  present  at  the  class  supper  in  the  evening. 

The  majority  of  the  members  of  the  class  present  went  out  to 
the  Yale  Field  and  saw  Yale  defeat  Harvard  by  a  score  of  7  to 
o.     Vale  won  the  championship  in  New  York  on  Friday,  July  1. 

The  class  gathered  at  the  Lawn  Club  House  at  six  o'clock. 
There  were  thirty-six  present : 

Allen,  Bailey,  Bingham,  Brewster,  Burns,  Coats,  Cowell,  Day,  de  Kay, 
Dixon,  Eastburn,  Linn,  McKinney,  Morse,  Newell,  Parry,  Pierce,  Rawson, 
F.  W.  Russell,  Searls,  Shelton,  Southworth,  Stowell,  Tweedy,  Varick, 
Varnum,  Viele,  Webster,  Welch,  Welles,  Wentworth,  Wheeler,  H.  S. 
Williams,  R.  B.  Williams,  Woodruff,  Wright. 

Linn  presided.  Letters  were  read  from  MacGregor,  Morse, 
Homes,  Berry,  Slay,  Beckwith,  John  Lewis,  Hume,  Coffin, 
Abbott,  DeForest.  The  Secretary  was  directed  to  send  a  letter 
of  sympathy  to  Moore,  whose  wife  had  recently  died.  Ernest, 
Ruth  and  Hannah  Hume,  children  of  Robert  A.  Hume,  called 
and  were  presented  to  the  class.  As  is  our  custom,  the  class  list 
was  read  and  any  one  present  gave  such  information  as  he  had 
about  each  absent  member.  It  was  the  general  opinion  of  those 
present  that  there  should  be  a  meeting  of  the  class  at  the  time  of 
the  Bicentennial  celebration  in  1901,  but  no  definite  directions 
were  given  to  the  Committee. 

Bicentennial  Meeting.  Sixty-eight  had  no  class  supper  at  the 
time  of  the  Bicentennial  celebration  in  1901,  but  thirty-six  mem- 
bers registered  at  the  class  headquarters,  1 1  Phelps  Hall : 


46 


THE   CLASS   OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


Allen,  Bacon,  Beckwith,  Berry,  Coats,  L.  B.  Colt,  Cowell,  S.  A.  Daven- 
port, de  Kay,  Eastburn,  Greene,  Homes,  G.  Lewis,  McKinney,  Moore, 
Morse,  Newell,  Page,  Pierce,  Rawson,  Rice,  Searls,  Shelton,  Southworth, 
Yarick,  Varnum,  Viele,  Webster,  Welles,  Wentworth,  Wesson,  Wheeler, 
H.  S.  Williams,  R.  B.  Williams,  Woodruff,  Wright. 

The  class  had  a  place  in  the  torchlight  procession  of  Monday, 
October  21,  in  which  about  five  thousand  students  and  graduates 


TRUMBULL    GALLERY 


marched,  forming  a  line  more  than  a  mile  and  a  half  in  length  : 
saw  the  tableaux  of  scenes  in  Yale  history  presented  by  the 
Yale  Dramatic  Association  on  the  campus  on  Tuesday  evening, 
October  22 ;  and  were  present  at  the  Hyperion  Theater  on 
Wednesday,  October  23,  to  hear  the  Bicentennial  Poem  by  E.  C. 
Stedman  and  the  Bicentennial  Oration  by  Chief  Justice  Brewer, 
and  to  witness  the  conferring  of  honorary  degrees  upon  the 
distinguished  guests  of  the  University.  Many  members  of  the 
class,  in  their  letters  to  the  Secretary,  expressed  their  pride  and 
satisfaction  in  having  a  part  in  this  great  celebration. 


HISTORY    SINCE    GRADUATION  47 

Reunion  of  1903.  Twenty-nine  members  of  the  elass  were 
present  at  the  class  reunion,  June  23,  1903,  on  the  thirty-fifth 
anniversary  of  our  graduation  : 

Allen,  Bingham,  Brewster,  Burns,  Coats,  Cowell,  Deforest,  Farnam, 
Greene,  Hill,  Linn,  McKinney,  Manierre,  Means,  Morse,  Newell,  Parry, 
Pierce,  Pierson,  Seagrave,  Varick,  Webster,  Welch,  Wentworth,  Wesson, 
Wheeler,   11.  S.  Williams,  Woodruff,  Wright. 

At  a  business  meeting  in  ii  Phelps  Mall,  Yuriek,  H.  S.  Wil- 
liams, and  the  Secretary  were  reappointed  a  committee  and 
instructed  to  make  arrangements  for  the  class  reunion  in  1908. 

The  majority  of  those  in  New  Haven  attended  the  Harvard- 
Yale  baseball  game,  and  went  in  a  private  car  at  the  close  of 
the  game  from  the  Yale  Field  to  the  Momauguin  at  Cosey 
Beach,  where  the  class  supper  was  served. 

Letters  of  regret  and  fraternal  greeting  were  read  from  Abbott, 
Bacon,  Bailey,  Beckwith,  Berry,  Coffin,  Dixon,  Eastburn,  Hume, 
G.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  MacGregor,  Moore,  Rawson,  Southworth, 
Yarnum,  R.  B.  Williams,  Day,  Durley,  and  Mason.  Brief 
speeches  were  made  by  Wesson,  Pierce,  Linn,  DeForest,  Brew- 
ster, Burns,  Wentworth,  Coats,  Parry,  and  Woodruff.  Cowell 
presided,  and  it  was  universally  agreed  that  the  older  we  grow, 
the  more  enjoyable  our  reunions  become. 

Reunion  of  1908.  About  two-thirds  of  those  present  came  on 
Monday  or  earlier.  The  class  headquarters  were  at  Mrs.  Lock- 
wood's,  155  and  159  Elm  Street,  where  nineteen  members  of  the 
class  had  rooms.  In  the  hall  at  155,  where  it  was  delightfully 
cool,  we  had  many  pleasant  talks  about  old  times,  about  our 
experiences  since  leaving  College,  and  about  our  classmates. 

A  business  meeting  was  held  at  11  Phelps  Hall  on  Tuesday 
at  11.30,  Webster  presiding.  Berry  was  chosen  to  preside  at 
the  class  supper.  Varick  and  Greene,  with  the  Secretary,  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  make  arangements  for  our  next 
reunion  in  1913.  There  were  thirty-three  members  of  the  class 
present  in  New  Haven  during  Commencement  week.  Nearly  all 
attended  the  Harvard- Yale  game  at  the  Yale  Field  (score,  Yale 
3,  Harvard  o),  and  the  Alumni  Dinner  on  Commencement  Day. 

The  most  delightful  event  was  the  Reception  and  Luncheon 
given  to  the  class  by  Professor  and  Mrs.  Dexter  at  their  resi- 
dence, 178  Prospect  Street,  from  twelve  to  two. 


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THE    CLASS   OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


The  following  were  present  at  the  class  supper  at  the  Shore- 
ham,  Morris  Cove : 

Abbott,  Bailey,  Berry,  Bingham,  Burns,  Coats,  Colt,  Cowell.  Day, 
DeForest,  Dixon,  Evans  (Shefr.  '68),  Farnam,  Fowler,  Greene,  Hill, 
Linn,  McKinney,  Morse,  Newell,  Parry,  Pierce,  Pierson,  Rawson,  Tweedy, 
Varick,  Viele,  Webster,  Welch,  Wheeler,  H.  S.  Williams,  Woodruff, 
and  Wright. 


OLD    LIHRARY 


Berry  presided.  Following  the  wishes  of  the  class,  as  obtained 
by  the  Secretary  through  correspondence,  there  were  no  set 
speeches.  The  Secretary  read  letters  from  Beckwith,  Bradford, 
Brewster,  Ingersoll,  J.  Lewis,  MacGregor,  Manierre,  Parsons, 
Rice,  Searls,  Slay,  Southworth,  Welles,  Bull,  Durley,  L.  L.  Hicks, 
J.  R.  Holmes,  Mason,  and  Van  Winkle.  Varick  also  read  letters 
from  Page  and  Esty.  The  Secretary  was  directed  to  make  reply 
to  each  one  from  whom  a  letter  had  been  received,  which  he  did 
with  great  pleasure,  giving  an  account  of  the  class  meeting  and 
sending  the  affectionate  greeting  of  all  those  present.  Informal 
speeches  were  also  made  by  Abbott,  Webster,  Fowler,  Colt,  and 
I -"vans. 


HISTORY    SINCE    GRADUATION 


49 


Linn  was  introduced  by  the  Chairman  as  one  who  had  on 
former  occasions  enlivened  the  class  meetings  by  his  wit  and 
good  sense.  After  some  preliminary  remarks,  which  most  of 
those  present  seemed  to  appreciate,  he  suddenly  brought  to  light 
and  presented  to  the  Secretary  a  beautiful  loving  cup  as  a  token 
of  the  esteem  and  love  of  Sixty-eight,  for  which  the  Secretary 


returned  thanks  as  well  as  he  could  under  the  circumstances, 
when  taken  completely  by  surprise.  A  few  weeks  later  he 
received  from  the  Cup  Committee  a  gold  watch,  chain,  and  pencil, 
with  the  affectionate  greetings  of  the  class.  It  is  not  in  his 
power  to  express,  even  now,  the  gratitude  which  he  feels  for 
these  priceless  gifts.  It  gladdens  his  heart  to  know  that  his  class- 
mates are  not  dissatisfied  with  his  services  as  secretary,  and  such 
evidence  of  their  love  and  esteem  is  unspeakably  precious.  It 
has  long  been  to  him  a  cause  for  deep  gratitude  that  he  was 

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50  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

able  to  come  to  Yale,  and  that  circumstances  that  seemed  beyond 
his  control  brought  him  here  in  time  to  enter  with  Sixty-eight. 
He  can  never  forget  the  helpful  interest  of  members  of  the  class, 
by  which  he  was  enabled  to  earn  his  way  in  College,  in  part,  and 
thus  to  continue  without  interruption  through  the  four  years. 
For  their  continued  kindness  and  sympathy  in  that  early  period, 
and  during  all  the  fleeting  years  that  have  followed,  he  owes  to 
the  men  of  Sixty-eight  a  debt  which  can  never  be  repaid. 

Between  March  28  and  May  20,  1905,  eleven  members  of 
Sixty-eight  sent  to  the  Secretary  gifts  amounting  to  one  hundred 
and  thirty  dollars,  to  be  forwarded  to  DeForest  as  a  contribution 
from  the  class  to  the  Japanese  Relief  Fund.  At  this  reunion 
DeForest  presented  to  the  Secretary,  as  the  representative  of 
the  class,  a  sake  cup  from  Governor  Kamei,  with  a  letter  in 
Japanese,  which  DeForest  translated  thus : 

"Mr.  DeForest  and  other  gentlemen,  having  given  gold  towards 
the  relief  of  the  famine  sufferers  of  the  village  Ichihasami  in  the 
county  of  Kurihara,  are  herewith  presented  with  a  sake  cup. 

Meiji,  39th  year,  10th  month,  2d  day   (October  20,  1906). 

Kamei  Eisaburo, 

Governor  of  Miyagi  Ken, 
3d  Order  of  the  Fourth  Rank." 

Class  of  Sixty-eight  Prize  in  Descriptive  Writing.  Linn,  in  a 
letter  dated  May  13,  1908,  had  suggested  that  the  class  establish 
a  prize  in  English : 

"What  would  you  think  of  the  idea  of  Sixty-eight  contributing  a 
moderate  sum,  the  income  of  which  would  constitute  a  prize  to  be  named 
after  the  class,  to  be  open  to  all  members  of  the  Academical  Department, 
and  to  be  awarded  to  that  member  who  wrote  the  best  descriptive  article 
each  year?  In  my  newspaper  experience  I  found  that  college  graduates 
generally  had  their  minds  directed  to  essay  writing,  and  that  in  college 
very  little  attention  was  paid  to  descriptive  composition.  Then  when 
reporters'  work  was  called  for,  the  teaching  had  to  be  done  over  again. 
It  lias  long  seemed  to  me  that  a  competition  of  this  kind  in  merely 
descriptive  writing,  where  the  student  would  not  be  expected  to  prove 
himself  a  philosopher,  would  have  practical  use.  I  would  contribute 
toward  such  a  fund." 

The  suggestion  was  renewed  at  the  class  meeting,  and  it  met 
with  so  much  favor  that  Greene,  after  brief  correspondence  with 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  5  I 

members    of    the   class,    received    from    them    contributions   by 

which  a  fund  was  established  which  now  amounts  to  over  twelve 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  Professor  William  Lyon  Phelps,  in 
a  letter  to  the  Secretary,  wrote:  "You  may  be  sure  that  I  am 
going-  to  take  up  that  1868  prize  and  make  it  a  success.  I  am 
deeply  interested  in  it." 

From  this  fund  a  prize  of  fifty  dollars  is  awarded  annually 
to  the  student  in  Yale  College  who  shall  write  the  best  prose 
description  of  from  twenty-five  hundred  to  five  thousand  words. 
The  award  is  based  on  the  merit  of  the  work  done  for  this  prize, 
without  regard  to  achievement  in  courses.  The  awards  have 
been : 

In  191 1,  to  Neill  Compton  Wilson  of  Oakland,  Cal.,  for  his 
description  of  San  Francisco. 

In  1912,  to  Philip  Burnham  Buzzell  of  Wilmington,  Mass., 
for  his  description  of  Yale  College  life. 

In  1913,  to  Ernest  Melville  Price  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  for 
his  description  of  New  Haven  and  its  environs. 

In  1914,  to  Morris  Hadley,  son  of  President  Hadley,  for  his 
description  of  New  Haven  and  its  environs. 

The  Sixty-eight  Class  Boy,  Dr.  Warren  Harmon  Lewis,  was 
married  May  23,  1910.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  went  abroad  on 
their  wedding  tour,  and  remained  till  the  opening  of  the  college 
year  in  September. 

Inasmuch  as  the  class  did  not  have  the  privilege,  at  its  Trien- 
nial meeting,  of  giving  the  Class  Boy  any  token  of  his  adoption, 
it  seemed  appropriate  to  improve  this  opportunity  to  make  him 
a  wedding  present.  The  idea  originated  with  McKinney  who, 
with  Varick  and  Berry,  acted  as  a  committee  to  select  the  gift. 
It  was  generally  agreed  that  nothing  would  be  more  appropriate 
than  a  loving  cup,  which  would  show  both  our  recognition  of 
our  Class  Boy  and  our  good  wishes  for  his  domestic  happiness. 
The  class  is  greatly  indebted  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Varick  for  their 
interest  and  for  their  good  taste  in  the  selection  and  decoration 
of  the  cup.  It  is  of  solid  silver,  about  nine  inches  high  and 
five  and  a  half  in  diameter,  standing  upon  an  ebony  pedestal. 
In  the  first  of  the  three  spaces  between  the  handles  is  the 
monogram  W.  H.  L. ;   in  the  second, 


5  2  the  class  of  l868,  yale  college 

The  Class  of  1868 

in  yale  college 

to  its  class  boy, 

Warren  Harmon  Lewis, 

MAY    23,    I9IO; 

in  the  third,  an  etching  of  the  Old  Brick  Row,  showing  South 
College,    the    Atheneum,    South    Middle,    the    Lyceum,    North 


OLD    BRICK    ROW 


Middle,  Old  Chapel,  North  College,  and  Divinity,  with  the 
corner  of  the  old  college  fence  in  the  foreground.  Above  the 
picture  on  the  left  side  are  the  words,  Yale  College,  and  under- 
neath it  the  title, 


(§lb  Irtrk  Saw. 

The  cup  was  sent  to  Professor  Lewis,  with  this  letter 
the  committee : 


from 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  53 

Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  October  27,  1910. 
Professor  Warren  Harmon  Lewis, 
Johns  Hopkins  University, 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Dear  Dr.  Lezvis: 

It  came  to  our  knowledge  through  a  letter  from  your  father  that 
you  were  married  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  May  last.  It  occurred  to 
us  that  it  would  be  a  pleasant  thing  for  the  Class  of  1868  of  Yale  College, 
whose  Class  Boy  you  are,  to  give  you  a  wedding  present.  As  you  did 
not  receive  the  cup  that  was  due  you  as  the  Class  Baby,  at  our  Triennial 
meeting  in  1871,  some  of  us  thought  that  the  wedding  present  might  well 
take  the  form  of  a  loving  cup.  This  idea  was  heartily  concurred  in  by 
the  surviving  members  of  the  Class,  and  resulted  in  the  selection  of  the 
cup  which  is  herewith  sent  to  you. 

In  common  with  all  your  godfathers  of  Sixty-eight,  we  sincerely  hope 
that  the  cup  will  be  cherished  by  you  and  your  wife  as  a  token  that  the 
classmates  of  your  father  in  old  Yale  have  not  forgotten  that  you  are 
their  Class  Boy. 

We  would  also  lovingly  call  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  Old 
Brick  Row  etched  upon  the  cup,  showing  the  famous  corner  of  the  old 
college  fence,  is  dear  to  Yale  graduates  of  our  day  and  many  days 
preceding,  but  exists  now  only  in  memory. 

In  behalf  of  all  our  classmates,  we  beg  to  remain 

Lovingly  and  sincerely  yours, 
C.  D.  Berry, 
J.  L.  Varick, 
W.  A.  McKinney. 

To  this  letter  Professor  Lewis  replied: 

Baltimore,  Md.,  November  9,  1910. 
Dear  Mr.  McKinney: 

The  surprise  and  delight  of  the  Class  Boy  and  his  wife  were  quite 
without  bounds  at  the  reception  into  their  household  of  the  very  beautiful 
and  attractive  loving  cup  from  the  Class  of  1868. 

I  feel  very  much  moved  and  stirred  by  the  remembrance,  not  only 
because  of  its  present  day  associations,  but  from  the  many  early  memories 
of  the  Class  of  Sixty-eight.  Almost  as  far  back  as  my  memory  goes,  I 
have  known  of  the  Class  of  Sixty-eight  and  of  Yale,  through  numerous 
photographs  and  records  belonging  to  my  father,  and  many  times  I  have 
turned  over  the  pages  of  the  large  album  that  contains  all  your  portraits. 
Because  of  my  love  for  my  father,  there  has  always  been  a  very  tender 
spot  for  those  men  who  were  so  closely  associated  with  him  in  the  old 
college  days. 

You  and  your  classmates  may  well  know  that  my  wife  and  I  will 
cherish  this  beautiful  gift,   for   which   we  thank  you   most  heartily,   and 


54  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

wish  that  you  might  all  step  in  and  drink  from  it  with  us  to  Yale  and  the 
Class  of  Sixty-eight. 
With  affectionate  regards  to  my  godfathers  of  Sixty-eight, 

Warren  H.  Lewis. 

Class  Meeting  in  New  York.  On  November  8,  1910,  Varick 
sent  out  the  following  letter  to  all  members  of  Sixty-eight, 
including  non-graduates  whose  addresses  were  known : 

My  dear  Classmate: 

It  having  occurred  to  me  that  it  might  be  pleasant  for  the  mem- 
bers of  our  Class  to  get  together  and  talk  over  old  times,  and  finding  that 
the  idea  meets  the  approval  of  those  with  whom  I  have  come  in  contact, 
I  write  to  ask  if  you  can  make  it  convenient  to  dine  with  me  at  the 
University  Club,  5th  Avenue  and  54th  Street,  New  York  City,  on  the 
evening  of  December  1st,  1910,  at  7  o'clock.  Kindly  advise  me  at  once 
if  I  may  expect  you,  and  oblige 

Yours  sincerely, 

J.  L.  Varick. 
118  West  5/th  Street. 

All  but  eight  of  the  graduates  replied.  Eighteen  were  present 
at  the  dinner,  including  the  Class  Boy,  Dr.  Lewis.  The  members 
of  the  class  were  seated  alphabetically  around  a  table,  the  center 
of  which  was  strewn  tastefully  with  an  abundance  of  choice 
flowers.  The  dinner  was  perfect  in  all  respects ;  it  could  not  have 
been  otherwise  when  Varick  was  the  host. 

Every  one  present  spoke  for  himself  and  for  absent  classmates 
about  whom  he  had  recent  information,  and  the  universal  tone 
was  one  of  pride  and  satisfaction  for  what  the  class  had 
accomplished  and  of  hope  for  many  years  of  active  service  yet 
to  come.  It  was  worth  much  to  get  together  at  this  half-way 
station  between  our  fortieth  and  forty-fifth  anniversaries,  and  in 
this  quiet  way  enjoy  an  evening  in  reviving  college  memories 
and  in  telling  one  another  our  experiences  in  these  later  years. 
There  were  present : 

Bingham,  Brewster,  Dixon,  Greene,  Hume,  Linn,  McKinney,  Newell, 
Pierce,  Pierson,  Varick,  Dr.  Lewis,  Viele,  Welch,  Wheeler,  R.  B.  Williams, 
Woodruff,  Wright. 

Inquiry  was  made  for  all  who  could  not  come,  and  letters  or 
telegrams  were  read  during  the  evening  from   Abbott,   Bailey, 


HISTORY   SINCE   GRADUATION  55 

Beckwith,  Berry,  Bradford,  Burns,  Coats,  Colt,  Cramer,  Daven- 
port, Day,  de  Kay,  Durant,  Fowler,  Hill,  Holmes,  Homes,  [nger- 
soll,  F.  B.  Lewis,  G.  H.  Lewis,  John  Lewis,  Manierre,  Morse, 
Page,  Parry,  Rawson,  Rice,  Robbins,  Seagrave,  Searls,  Slav, 
Southworth,  Trimble,  Upshur,  Washburn,  Webster,  Welles. 

Since  the  meeting1  in  New  York,  the  Secretary  lias  sent  to 
the  members  of  Sixty-eight,  graduate  and  non-graduate,  Class 
Letters  dated  March  20,  191 1,  and  May  20,  1912. 

Wright  Memorial  Hall  was  opened  for  occupancy  in  Septem- 
ber, 191 2,  and  furnished  accommodations  during  the  college  year 
km  j-13  to  more  than  one  hundred  and  sixty  members  of  the 
Freshman  Class.  The  building  was  dedicated  with  appropriate 
exercises  on  Saturday,  November  23.  The  presentation  address 
was  made  by  George  E.  Ide  of  the  Class  of  1880.  President 
Hadley  accepted  the  gift  for  the  University.  Among  the  memo- 
rial suites  are  three,  with  the  following  inscriptions: 

Room  667.  The  gift  of  Charles  W.  Bingham,  Class  of  1868, 
and  Henry  P.  Bingham,  Class  of  19 10. 

Room  669.     The  gift  of  Dean  Wright's  Class,  1868. 

Room  670.  In  memory  of  Coburn  Dewees  Berry,  Class  of 
1868.     The  gift  of  the  Class. 

The  Reunion  in  19 13.  Room  121,  Hotel  Taft,  was  engaged 
by  the  Committee  for  Commencement  week,  and  here  members 
of  Sixty-eight  were  to  be  found  from  Saturday,  June  14,  till 
the  Thursday  following  Commencement  Day.  Many  of  the 
class  had  rooms  at  Hotel  Davenport,  and  some  were  pleasantly 
located  with  Mrs.  B.  R.  Cowan  at  371  Crown  Street.  Twenty- 
four  came  to  the  reunion : 

Bailey,  Bingham,  Brewster,  Bull,  Coats,  Dixon,  Greene,  Hill,  Linn, 
McKinney,  Morse,  Newell,  Pierce,  Rawson,  Robbins,  Searls,  Slay,  South- 
worth,  Varick,  Webster,  Welch,  Welles,  Wheeler,  Wright. 

Bull  had  not  been  at  a  class  meeting  since  1866;  Robbins  had 
not  met  with  us  since  Triennial.  The  presence  of  these  two 
classmates  added  greatly  to  the  enjoyment  of  the  week. 

There  are  now  so  many  objects  that  claim  attention  at  the 
time  of  the  annual  Commencement  that  there  is  hardly  an  hour 
of  Sunday,  Monday,  Tuesday,  or  Wednesday  that  is  not  taken 
up  by  some  public  exercise.     Sixty-eight  did  not  attempt  to  take 


HISTORY    SINCE   GRADUATION  57 

in  much  beyond  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon,  the  Organ  Recital, 
and  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Yale  Foreign  Missionary  Society 
on  Sunday;  the  Presentation  Day  exercises,  and  the  Glee  Club 
Concert  on  Monday;  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  meeting  in  the  Chapel, 
and  the  Harvard-Yale  baseball  game  at  the  Yale  Field,  on  Tues- 
day. On  Wednesday  a  part  of  the  class  attended  Commence- 
ment in  Woolsey  Hall,  and  all  went  to  the  Alumni  Dinner  in  the 
Yale  Dining  Hall. 

( )f  course  the  chief  event  of  all,  for  us,  was  our  class  supper 
on  Tuesday  evening.  Webster  presided,  and  Bishop  Brewster 
said  grace.  The  menu  gave  universal  satisfaction.  A  telegram 
was  received  from  the  Pacific  coast,  to  which  a  reply  was  sent 
by  the  presiding  officer : 

Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  June  16,  1913. 
Sixty-eight  Reunion, 

Hotel  Taft,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

We  will  convene  Tuesday  evening,  eight-forty  eastern  time,  to 
greet  you  across  the  continent  in  affectionate  libation  to  Sixty-eight,  to 
the  health  and  welfare  of  all  our  dear  classmates  still  with  us,  and  fond 
remembrance  of  those  gone  before.     Is  all  well? 

Ixckrsoll  and  Abbott. 


New  Haven,  Conn.,  June  17,  1913. 
Ingersoll  and  Abbott, 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Twenty-four  in  number,  we  most  heartily  return  your  greetings  and 
tenderly  regret  your  absence.  As  of  old,  we  are  with  you  in  your  libations, 
and  here's  another  to  you  and  dear  old  Yale. 

J.  H.  Webster,  Chairman. 

The  Secretary  read  letters  from  Beckwith,  Bradford,  Colt, 
Cramer,  Davenport,  de  Kay,  Fowler,  Homes,  Hume,  J.  Lewis, 
Manierre,  Means,  Miller,  Moore,  Morse,  Parry,  Rice,  Seagrave, 
Viele,  H.  S.  Williams,  R.  B.  Williams,  Barnett,  Boylan,  Day, 
Durley,  L.  L.  Hicks,  Hobson,  J.  R.  Holmes,  Potter,  and  Upshur. 
The  informal  speeches  of  Newell,  Bull,  Robbins,  Brewster,  Linn, 
Rawson,  Southworth,  Coats,  Welch,  Slay,  Searls,  and  Welles 
brought  back  pleasant  memories  of  undergraduate  days  and  gave 
inspiration  and  hope  for  the  years  to  come. 


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It  was  voted  that  a  contribution  from  Sixty-eight  be  made  to 
the  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  Memorial  Church  in  honor  of 
DeForest,  in  Sendai,  Japan,  where  he  was  located  for  twenty-five 
years.  Twelve  members  of  the  class  sent  to  the  Secretary  gifts 
of  from  five  to  forty  dollars  each,  amounting  in  all  to  two 
hundred  and  sixteen  dollars.  This  sum  has  been  forwarded, 
through  the  American  Board,  to  the  Committee  in  Japan. 

Rev.  Arthur  F.  Lewis,  son  of  our  classmate,  F.  B.  Lewis,  was 
the  guest  of  the  class,  and  brought  greetings  from  his  father  in 
Montana. 

This  was  one  of  our  best  reunions,  and  was  made  especially 
impressive  by  the  memory  of  so  many  dear  classmates  who  have 
passed  from  earth.  The  exercises  of  the  evening  were  fittingly 
closed  with  the  benediction  by  Welles. 


W.    C.    WOOD    AND    TINKER 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES 


GRADUATES 
James  Whitin  Abbott 

Son  of  Rev.  J.  J.  Abbott  (Dartmouth  1839)  and  Margaret  F.  (Whitin) 
Abbott.  His  father  was  for  many  years  Trustee  of  Bowdoin  College  and 
was  one  of  the  most  learned  Hebrew  scholars  of  his  time  in  the  United 
States.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Paul  Whitin  and  sister  of  Paul 
and  John  C,  the  original  Paul  Whitin  &  Sons. 

His  brothers,  J.  J.  Abbott,  Ph.B.  Yale  '72,  and  Paul  Whitin  Abbott, 
Ph.B.  Yale  '83,  are  still  living.  His  brother,  William  Whittlesey  Abbott, 
Ph.B.  Yale  '77,  died  July  8,  1899. 

James  W.  Abbott  was  born  at  Whitinsville,  Mass.,  August  29, 
1846,  and  graduated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  in  the  Class  of 
[864.  In  college  he  gave  special  attention  to  gymnastics  and 
athletics,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Junior  Promenade  Com- 
mittee. After  graduating  from  college,  he  pursued  the  course 
in  civil  engineering  at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  receiving 
the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1870,  and  after  a  further  year  of  gradu- 
ate study,  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Yale  in 
1871. 

From  October,  1871,  to  June,  1872,  he  was  assistant  engineer 
on  the  Kings  County  Town  Survey,  Brooklyn.  During  the  fol- 
lowing two  years  he  was  engineer  for  the  estate  of  Hon.  William 
Walter  Phelps  in  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey. 

In  January,  1875,  J.  W.  and  J.  J.  Abbott  established  the  firm 
of  Abbott  Bros.,  at  Lake  City,  Colo.,  where  they  were  engaged 
in  civil  and  mining  engineering.  He  remained  there  until  1883, 
when  the  camp  collapsed  in  financial  panic.  Up  to  that  time  he 
had  prospered,  but  all  his  hard-bought  accumulations  were  then 
swept  away. 

After  eighteen  months  spent  in  tentative  effort  to  get  satis- 
factorily into  line  in  the  East,  he  again  returned  to  Colorado, 
where  he  assumed  charge  of  the  large  transportation  business  of 


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THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


his  brother-in-law,  David  Wood,  at  Ouray.  He  was  soon 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  District  Court  at  that  place  and  held 
that  office  for  ten  years,  finding  some  time  to  devote  to  his 
profession  and  other  pursuits. 

The  panic  of  1893  produced  a  depression  at  Ouray,  which 
threatened  the  existence  of  the  camp,  at  that  time  principally  a 
silver  producer.  In  1894  he  went  to  the  University  of  California 
for  a  six  months'  post-graduate  course  in  mining  branches,  and 


in  1895  was  elected  manager  of  a  large  mining  enterprise,  known 
as  the  Ybarra  Gold  Mining  Company,  in  Mexico.  There  he 
made  a  signal  success,  winning  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  directors  and  stockholders  of  the  company.  After  getting 
the  business  so  thoroughly  organized  and  systematized  that  he 
felt  it  no  longer  needed  his  supervision,  late  in  1896,  he  resigned 
and  resumed  general  practice  as  mining  engineer  in  California 
and  Oregon,  and  in  1899  he  returned  to  Colorado. 

In  1900  he  received,  unsolicited,  the  appointment  of  Special 
Agent  for  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  High- 
way Division,  in  charge  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  and  Pacific 
Coast  branch,  his  field  covering  the  entire  region  between  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES  6  I 

Missouri  River  and  the  Pacific  Coast.  This  position  he  held  for 
five  years  and  acquired  a  national  reputation  as  the  "Pioneer 
Good  Roads  Man"  of  the  West.  He  built  object  lesson  roads, 
addressed  public  bodies,  conventions  and  other  assemblies,  and 
wrote  voluminously  for  publication.  His  monographs,  entitled 
" Mountain  Roads,"  "Mountain  Roads  as  a  Source  of  Revenue," 
and  "The  Use  of  Mineral  Oil  in  Road  Improvement,"  were 
published  by  the  Government  and  many  editions  were  required 
to  supply  the  demand. 

In  1905  the  road  work  of  the  Government  was  entirely 
reorganized,  and  Abbott  declined  to  remain  under  the  changed 
conditions.  He  returned  to  the  practice  of  engineering,  and  for 
the  next  six  years  was  located  at  Pioche,  Nevada.  A  cataclysm 
similar  to  that  which  befell  Lake  City  and  Ouray  came  to  Pioche 
in  19 10,  when  the  most  disastrous  flood  in  all  railroad  history 
paralyzed  every  activity.  In  19 12  he  withdrew  from  Pioche  and 
is  now  living  in  Los  Angeles,  where  he  expects  to  remain 
permanently.  He  has  recently  published  a  booklet  in  clear  and 
attractive  style  which  convincingly  shows  the  wonderful  future  of 
Los  Angeles  and  Southern  California. 

Abbott  was  married  in  Lake  City,  September  24,  1877,  to 
Florence  Wood  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  has  two  children : 
Charles  Whitin,  born  December  5,  1878;  Ruth  Beatrice,  born 
March  24,  1881. 

Charles  is  a  mining  engineer  of  diversified  experience,  but 
has  no  university  diploma.  He  is  at  present  manager  of  a  large 
sheep  enterprise  in  Idaho,  and  is  acquiring  a  state-wide  reputa- 
tion as  an  expert  in  that  line. 

Ruth  was  graduated  from  Wellesley  in  1904.  She  was  married 
in  June,  1906,  to  Edward  H.  Letchworth,  now  member  of  the 
law-firm  of  Kenefick,  Cooke,  Mitchell  &  Bass,  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
successor  to  the  old  firm  of  Grover  Cleveland  and  former 
Postmaster-General  Bissell,  Yale  '69.  They  have  two  children: 
Edward  H.,  Jr.,  born  January  9,  1909,  and  George  Cutler,  born 
September  12,  191 1. 

*Edwin  Lee  Allen 

Son  of  Edwin  Lee  and  Lydia  Waterman  (Smith)  Allen.  His  father, 
Edwin  Lee  Allen  (first  of  the  name),  was  born  in  North  Ashford,  Conn., 
June    11,    1832,    and    died    in    Providence,    October    16,    1849.     He    was    a 


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descendant  of  William  Allen,  who  settled  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  about  1638. 
Allen's  mother,  Lydia  Waterman  Smith,  was  born  in  North  Scituate, 
R.  I.,  August  14,  1826.  The  first  of  her  line  in  this  country  was  Christo- 
pher Smith  of  Providence,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Rhode  Island. 
After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Edwin  Lee  Allen,  she  married  his  brother, 
William  Lafayette  Allen,  and  had  three  sons,  all  of  whom  received  the 
degree  of  B.A.  at  Yale:  William  L.  Allen,  Jr.,  in  1880,  Martin  S.  Allen 
in  1882,  and  Z.  Nelson  Allen  in  1886. 


Edwin  L.  Allen  was  born  February  29,  1848,  in  Providence, 
R.  I.  In  1857  the  family  removed  to  Xew  York,  where  he  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Mount  Washing-ton  Collegiate  Institute. 
After  a  year's  residence  in  New  York,  the  family  removed  to 
Brooklyn,  from  which  place  he  came  to  college. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Columbia 
Grammar  School,  New  York  City.  He  then  entered  into  busi- 
ness with  his  father,  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  William 
L.  Allen  &  Company,  commission  merchants,  with  which  he  was 
connected  till  his  death.  His  three  brothers,  after  graduating 
from  Yale,  all  became  members  of  the  firm  of  William  L.  Allen 
&  Company. 


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Allen  was  a  member  of  the  Central  Congregational  Church, 
a  Masonic  veteran,  and  one  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  was  married  February  9,  1876,  to  Mary  Tudor  Pratt, 
daughter  of  John  M.  and  Mary  (Tudor)  Pratt  of  Brooklyn, 
and  had  five  children:  Edwin  Lee,  born  January  28,  1877; 
Harold  Bruce,  born  May  17,  1880,  died  January  25,  191 1; 
Marion  Tudor,  born  January  31,  1883,  died  April  18,  1884; 
Alice  Cleveland,  born  March  18,  1889;  John  Pratt,  born 
December  18,  1895. 

The  eldest  son,  Edwin  Lee,  is  interested  in  a  large  real  estate 
and  insurance  firm  in  New  York  City.  His  residence  is  in 
Xetherwood,  N.  J.  He  was  married  April  15,  1902,  to  Annie 
Elliott  Langdon  of  Brooklyn  and  has  two  boys :  Edwin  Lee, 
fourth  of  the  name,  born  June  6,  1905,  in  Brooklyn,  and  Lang- 
don, born  March  28,  1909,  in  Netherwood. 

Alice  Cleveland  was  married  November  26,  19 13,  to  Walter 
B.  Spellmire  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

John  Pratt  lives  with  his  mother  at  the  family  home,  456A 
Classon  Avenue,  Brooklyn. 

Our  classmate,  Edwin  Lee  Allen,  died  suddenly  at  his  home 
in  Brooklyn,  after  a  brief  illness,  December  19,  1904,  in  the 
fifty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  was  a  loyal  member  of  his 
class  and  college,  and  liberal  in  his  support  of  all  good  enter- 
prises. 

*Russell  William  Ayres 

Son  of  James  R.  and  Eliza  (Marshall)  Ayres,  was  born  at 
Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  January  10,  1844.  When  he  was  four  years 
of  age,  his  parents  removed  to  Waterbury,  Conn.,  from  which 
place  he  came  to  college. 

He  began  his  preparation  for  Yale  at  Fort  Edward  Institute, 
but  interrupted  his  studies  for  a  year's  service  in  the  army. 
August  21,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-third  Connecticut 
Infantry.  He  was  mustered  in,  November  14,  and  was 
appointed  Corporal.  The  regiment,  early  in  the  winter,  em- 
barked for  the  Gulf  Department  in  Louisiana,  and  was  chiefly 
employed  in  guarding  the  railroads  and  suppressing  the  guerrillas, 
while  Ayres  was  detailed  for  duty  at  headquarters  in  New 
Orleans.     He  was  discharged  August  31,  1863,  and  in  Septem- 


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ber  entered  Wesleyan  Academy,   Wilbraham,   Mass.,  where  he 
completed  his  preparation  for  college. 

He  was  awarded  prizes  in  Sophomore  and  Senior  Composition ; 
won  first  prize  in  Debate  in  Freshman,  Sophomore  and  Junior 
years;  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  President 
of  Brothers,  and  one  of  the  two  Orators  chosen  from  the  class 
to  represent  Brothers  in  the  "Statement  of  Facts"  at  the  begin- 
ning of  Senior  year. 


After  graduating  at  Yale,  he  commenced  reading  law  with 
Judge  Charles  W.  Gillette  of  Waterbury,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  in  1869.  The  following  year  was  spent  at  the  Harvard 
Law  School,  where  he  received  his  degree  in  June,  1870.  Owing 
to  ill-health,  he  was  compelled  to  defer  entering  upon  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession,  though  he  still  continued  his  literary 
as  well  as  his  legal  studies,  occasionally  contributing  to  the  local 
press. 

In  the  spring  of  1872  he  removed  with  his  father  to  the  town 
of  Milford,  Conn.,  near  the  seashore,  seeking  by  out-of-door 
exercise  and  the  management  of  a  farm  to  recruit  his  health. 
Chiefly  through  his  exertions,  a  depot  on  the  New  York  and 


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New  Haven  Railroad  was  located  midway  between  Milford  and 
West  Haven,  and  a  new  settlement  commenced,  to  which  he  gave 
the  name  of  Woodmont.  His  hope  was  to  make  this  his  residence 
and  to  practice  his  profession  in  New  Haven.  The  winter  of 
1872-73  was  spent  in  Florida,  with  some  benefit  to  his  health ; 
but  while  traveling  in  the  West  in  the  early  part  of  December, 
1873,  he  took  a  severe  cold,  and  returning  homeward  stopped  to 
visit  his  eldest  brother  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  attacked 
with  pneumonia  and  died  after  a  brief  illness,  on  the  14th  of 
December,  1873. 

♦William  Turner  Bacon 

Son  of  Leonard  H.  and  Elizabeth  C.  (Turner)  Bacon,  and  grandson 
of  Rev.  William  W.  Turner.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  descended 
from  Michael  Bacon,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  town  of  Dedham,  Mass 
(1640),  and  on  his  mother's  side  from  Captain  Nathanael  Turner,  who 
came  from  England  with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1650  and  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  the  New  Haven  Colony.  On  his  mother's  side  he  was 
also  descended  from  Lieutenant  Zaccheus  Peaslee  of  the  staff  of  Gen. 
Moses  Hazen  of  Revolutionary  fame.  His  grandfather,  Rev.  William  W. 
Turner,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1819. 

William  T.  Bacon  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  August  2J, 
[846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Grammar  School  in 
Hartford.  He  entered  college  with  '67,  remained  with  that  class 
till  the  close  of  Sophomore  year,  and  joined  '68  in  May,  1866. 

After  graduation  he  was  a  student  of  medicine  in  New  York 
City,  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and  at  the 
University  of  the  City  of  Xew  York,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1 87 1.  He  was  for  twenty  months  on  the  House  Staff  of  Charity 
Hospital,  Blackwell's  Island,  and  was  subsequently  tutor  in 
Physiology  and  Histology  in  the  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  the  City  of  New  York;  assistant  surgeon  in  the 
New  York  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary;  attending  physician  at 
the  Bureau  of  Outdoor  Relief ;  and  assistant  to  Dr.  Janeway 
in  the  pathological  rooms  of  Bellevue  Hospital,  New  York  City. 

From  October,  1876,  till  his  death,  he  practiced  medicine  in 
Hartford,  making  a  specialty  of  the  eye  and  the  ear,  and  became 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  specialists  in  his  line  in  New 
England.  He  was  Ophthalmic  and  Aural  Surgeon  to  the  Hart- 
ford Hospital,  a  member  of  the  American  Ophthalmological 
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Society,  of  the  Connecticut  Medical  Society,  and  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  and  President  of  the  Hartford  Medical 
Society  and  of  the  Hartford  County  Medical  Society.  The 
following  papers  were  read  before  different  Medical  Societies 
and  published  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  Medical 
Society  or  in  pamphlet  form: 


"Syphilitic  Hypalitis,"  10// 

"Treatment  of  Phlyctenular  Ophthalmia  by  Stimulation,"    1878. 

"A  Case  of  Secondary  Sarcoma  Causing  Ocular  Paralysis  and  Loss  of 
Sight,"    1882. 

"Glioma  of  Retina,"    1884. 

"Adenoid  Vegetation,"    1891. 

"School  Life  in  Relation  to  the  Eyes,"    1892. 

"Ophthalmia  Neonatorum." 

"Reflex  Neurosis  Depending  on  the  Eye." 

An  article  on  "Color  Blindness"  was  published  in  the  Report  of  the 
Connecticut  Board  of  Health  for  1879. 


In   1877  he  joined  the  Asylum  Hill  Congregational  Churc 
and    allowed   nothing   to   interfere   with   his   attendance   at   the 
religious  services. 

He  was  married  in  Hartford,  June  10,  1875,  to  Mary  E.  Coit 
daughter  of  Samuel  Coit  of  that  city. 


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He  died  from  disease  of  the  kidneys  at  his  home  in  Hartford, 
March  16,  1906.  In  his  will  he  left  a  legacy  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  to  the  Hartford  Medical  Society,  and  a  residuary 
bequest  to  Yale  University,  from  which  it  received  sixty-eight 
thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty-one  dollars  available  for  the 
general  purposes  of  the  University: 

Dr.  Harmon  G.  Lowe,  in  his  obituary  notice,  said  of  him: 

"Dr.  Bacon  was  a  ready  writer.  He  was  explicit  in  his  statements  and 
forcible  in  discussion,  yielding  a  point  only  when  thoroughly  convinced 
of  error.  He  was  well  versed  in  parliamentary  usage,  and  made  an  excel- 
lent presiding  officer.  Under  a  sometimes  austere  exterior,  he  possessed 
an  extremely  kindly  and  charitable  disposition." 


Stephen  Goodhue  Bailey 

Son  of  Thomas  Duston  and  Ruth  Folsom  (Goodhue)  Bailey.  His 
paternal  ancestor,  Richard  Bailey,  came  from  England  to  Rowley,  Mass., 
and  was  there  connected  with  one  of  the  first  cloth  mills  in  America. 
His  father's  mother  was  a  Duston,  descended  from  Thomas,  eldest  son 
of  the  Hannah  Duston  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  who  was  captured  by  the 
Indians  in  1697,  and  who  escaped,  after  killing  her  captors,  and  returned 
to  Haverhill  with  ten  Indian  scalps  to  prove  her  story.  A  commemorative 
statue  has  been  erected  to  her  at  Haverhill,  and  a  second  monument 
stands  on  the  little  island,  the  scene  of  the  tragedy,  at  the  confluence 
of  the  Contoocook  with  the  Merrimack,  near  Concord,  X.  H.  His 
father's  early  life  was  spent  on  a  farm  in  New  Hampshire,  which  he 
left  at  the  age  of  sixteen  to  serve  an  apprenticeship  as  mason  and  con- 
tractor, which  occupation  he  followed  in  later  years. 

Bailey's  mother  was  a  descendant  of  William  Goodhue,  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1612,  who  came  to  America  in  1635  and  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass. 
She  was  a  native  of  Hebron,  N.  H.,  where  her  father,  Stephen  Goodhue, 
kept  the  village  store,  was  Postmaster  and  Justice  of  the  Peace.  Her 
maternal  grandfather  was  Rev.  Thomas  Page,  who  came  to  Hanover, 
X.  H.,  from  Connecticut  at  about  the  same  time  with  Wheeler  who 
founded  Dartmouth  College.  "Priest  Page,"  as  he  was  familiarly  called, 
saw  some  little  service  in  the  American  Revolution  and  served  as  clergy- 
man in  that  region  till  his  death.  The  two  branches  of  his  father's  family, 
Bailey  and  Duston,  as  of  his  mother's  family,  Goodhue  and  Page,  all 
trace  their  origin  in  this  country  from  northeastern  Massachusetts  early 
in  the  seventeenth  century. 

Stephen  G.  Bailey  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  January  23,  1845, 
and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Lowell  High  School.  He  was 
a  devoted  member  of  Brothers,  and  was  President  of  that  Society 
during  the  third  term  of  his  Senior  year. 


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Comparing  present  accommodations  with  those  of  our  day, 
he  writes:  ''I  came  to  Yale  from  a  public  high  school,  not 
acquainted  with  one  man  in  the  class,  with  no  preparatory  school 
backing.  I  roomed  during  my  Freshman  year  in  the  old  Athe- 
neum,  occupying  the  classroom  for  a  study  and  sleeping  in  the 
adjoining  dark  bedroom.  In  return  for  the  care  of  the  room 
and  fire,  I  paid  no  rent.  My  callers  were  few,  and  I  have 
always    remembered    with    special    gratitude   a    call    from    Tim 


Chapman,  who  came  with  abundant  good  feeling.  This  housing 
was  not  strictly  demanded  from  the  point  of  economy,  though 
practiced  with  this  end  in  view." 

After  graduation,  Bailey  taught  in  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  Brook- 
field,  Mass.,  Marblehead,  Mass.,  and  became  in  1871  Principal 
of  the  Franklin  Grammar  School,  Lowell.  This  position  he 
resigned  in  July,  1874,  and  engaged  in  the  coal  business. 

In  1875  he  entered  the  Boston  University  School  of  Medicine, 
where   he   was   graduated   with   honor   in    May,    1880.      In   th 
Medical  School  he  was  President  of  his  class,  and  his  graduating 
essay,  on    "The  Germ  Theory  of  Disease,"    won  an  important 
prize.     After  practicing  for  one  year  in   Haverhill,   Mass.,  he 


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opened  an  office  in  Lowell,  where  he  applied  himself  closely  to 
his  profession  and  was  rewarded  by  a  steadily  increasing  practice. 

In  1890  he  went  to  the  new  State  of  Washington,  where  he 
spent  eighteen  months,  practicing  medicine  and  getting  some 
knowledge  of  booming  new  towns  and  speculating  in  town  lots. 
In  the  fall  of  1891  he  returned  to  Lowell  and  resumed  the 
I  tract  ice  of  his  profession,  and  continued  the  same  till  1898,  when 
he  entered  the  United  States  Customs  service  at  Boston,  where 
he  still  remains. 

Though  of  delicate  constitution  in  early  life,  he  has  taken  such 
care  of  his  health,  that  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years  he  can 
walk  thirty  miles  in  a  day  on  the  public  highway. 

August  6,  1873,  he  was  married  at  Lowell  to  Ella  P.  Pray, 
daughter  of  John  Jones  Pray,  a  native  of  Maine,  a  mason  and 
builder  in  Lowell  for  many  years.  They  have  five  children : 
Sidney  Pray,  born  June  23,  1876 ;  Thomas  Duston,  born  July  25, 
1878;  Philip  Goodhue,  born  March  7,  1880;  Paul,  born  July  I, 
1884;  and  Ruth  Merrill,  born  May  24,  1886. 

Sidney  Pray  was  married  to  Gertrude  Hall  in  Lowell,  June  6, 
1898,  and  has  two  children:  Edward  Hall,  born  February  1, 
1 90 1,  and  Helen  Margaret,  born  September  4,  1907. 

Thomas  Duston  was  married  to  Marion  Mason  Hill  at  Rich- 
mond Hill,  Long  Island,  April  19,  1910,  and  has  two  sons: 
Thomas  Duston,  Jr.,  born  February  II,  191 1,  and  Stewart,  born 
October  1,  1912. 

Ruth  Merrill  was  graduated  from  Mount  Holyoke  College  in 
1909. 

Isbon  Thaddeus  Beckwith 

His  father,  William  Beckwith,  son  of  Titus  Beckwith,  was  born  in 
East  Lyme,  Conn.,  November  26,  1803.  The  ancestors  of  his  father's 
family  came  from  England  and  settled  in  eastern  Connecticut  about  1640. 
The  ancestors  of  his  mother,  Caroline  (Champion)  Beckwith,  also  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  eastern  Connecticut  about  1645.  Those  of 
his  own  immediate  line  on  both  sides  have  always  lived  in  that  part  of 
the  country.  They  have  been  respectable  and  respected  in  their  com- 
munities, following  the  common  callings  of  the  farmer,  merchant,  and 
trader,  serving  sometimes  in  offices  for  the  town  and  sometimes  in  war. 

Isbon  T.  Beckwith  was  born  in  Old  Lyme,  Conn.,  October  18, 
1843,  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  J.  C.  Nichols  of  Old 
Lyme,  and  entered  the  class  January  6,  1865.     He  was  one  of  the 


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speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement,  with  High 
Oration  rank  in  scholarship.  In  Senior  year  he  received  a  first 
prize  for  English  Composition,  and  was  awarded  the  DeForest 
Medal,  dividing  the  honor  with  G.  H.  Lewis. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  Instructor  in  Greek 
in  East  Tennessee  University,  Knoxville.  In  September,  1870, 
he  became  Tutor  in  Greek  at  Yale  College,  and  continued  in 
the  tutorship  till  July,  1872,  when  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D. 


upon  an  examination  in  Philosophy  and  Philology.  He  then 
spent  two  years  at  the  Universities  of  Gottingen  and  Leipsic, 
studying  Theology  and  Philology,  and  on  his  return  became  again 
Tutor  in  Greek  at  Yale.  In  1879  he  accepted  the  professor- 
ship of  Greek  in  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  which  he  held  till 
called  in  1898  to  the  professorship  of  the  Literature  and  Inter- 
pretation of  the  New  Testament  in  the  General  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  United 
States,  located  in  New  York  City.  He  resigned  this  position  in 
1906,  and  has  since  resided  in  Hartford,  where  he  has  taught 
classes  in  Trinity  College  and  continued  his  studies  in  New 
Testament  Greek.  His  time  and  strength  have  been  spent  mostly 
on  teaching,  in  which  his  success  has  been  remarkable.     He  is 


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one  of  the  very  few  teachers  who  can  make  his  students,  even 
the  undergraduates,  his  friends  and  daily  companions  without 
any  loss  of  dignity. 
He  has  published : 

"The  Bacchantes  of  Euripides,"  in  the  College  Series  of  Greek  Authors, 
Ginn  &  Co.,  l88s 

A  paper  on  "The  Articular  Infinitive  with  els,"  in  the  Journal  of  Bibli- 
cal  Literature,   1896. 

He  is  now  engaged  in  some  writing-  in  the  department  of  New 
Testament  exegesis. 

Beckwith  is  a  member  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of 
America,  of  the  American  Philological  Association,  and  of  the 
Society  of  Biblical  Literature  and  Exegesis. 

He  was  ordained  to  the  diaconate  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  1875,  and  to  tne  priesthood  in  1876.  Trinity  College 
conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  D.D.  in  1898. 


*Coburn  Dewees  Berry 

Son  of  YV.  T.  and  Mary  (Tannehill)  Berry.  His  father  was  the  head 
of  the  well-known  book  firm  of  W.  T.  Berry  &  Company  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.  His  home  was  three  miles  from  Nashville,  on  the  Franklin  Pike, 
where  our  classmate's  boyhood  was  spent. 

Coburn  D.  Berry  was  born  in  Nashville,  October  27,  1844. 
For  several  years  he  and  his  brother  (now  Admiral  Albert  Berry 
of  the  United  States  Navy)  attended  the  local  school  taught  by 
Andrew  Campbell.  His  father  was  a  Union  man,  and  in  1863 
he  sent  his  son  North  for  his  education  and  entered  him  in  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven,  placing  him  in  the 
family  of  the  Rector,  Rev.  J.  M.  Whiton. 

Berry  finished  his  preparation  for  college  in  one  year,  and 
entered  Yale  in  September,  1864.  James  Trimble,  Horace 
Cooper,  and  Samuel  Watson,  all  from  Nashville,  entered  at  the 
same  time.  The  gift  of  the  wooden  spoon  marked  him  as  the 
most  popular  man  in  his  class. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  he  returned  to  Nashville,  where  he  studied 
law  with  Hon.  Edmund  Baxter.  In  1871  he  became  a  member 
of  the  law  firm  of  Campbell,  McEwan,  Berry  &  Lea.  The  firm 
ceased  to  exist  in  1875,  and  he  continued  the  practice  alone. 
He  devoted  himself  mainly  to  the  chancery  division  and  built 


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up  a  very  large  practice,  and  likewise  gained  to  such  a  degree 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  community  that  he  became  one 
of  the  most  popular  and  prominent  citizens  of  Nashville.  He 
was  the  trusted  counsellor  of  a  large  number  of  clients  who  had 
perfect  faith  in  his  integrity.  In  1888  he  was  elected,  by  the 
Tennessee  Senate,  Trustee  of  the  University  of  Nashville,  and 
through  that  office  became  Chairman  of  the  Montgomery  Bell 
Academy  Commission.     He  gave  much  time  and  attention  to  the 


interests  of  these  two  institutions,  and  was  never  absent  from  a 
meeting  of  the  University  Trustees. 

October  29,  1873,  he  was  married,  at  Nashville,  to  Mannie 
Kirkman,  daughter  of  John  Kirkman.  He  had  five  children, 
all  born  in  Nashville:  John  Kirkman,  September  5,  1874; 
Coburn  Dewees,  March  19,  1877;  Catherine  Kirkman,  September 
25,  1879;  James  Porter  Kirkman,  June  27,  1882;  William  Tyler, 
October  9,  1884. 

John  Kirkman  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1896, 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  New  York  Law  School  in 
1898,  and  is  now  a  lawyer  in  New  York  City. 


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Coburn  Devvees  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1899. 
He  died  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  March  16,  1901. 

James  Porter  Kirkman  completed  the  course  in  Civil  Engineer- 
in-  with  the  Class  of  1904  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and 
began  work  with  an  engineering  corps  near  Knoxville,  Tenn.  He 
died  March  11,  1905,  after  an  illness  of  four  days,  with  acute 
pneumonia. 

William  Tyler  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1906,  and  is  a  civil  engineer  located  in  Nashville. 

In  November,  1909,  Berry  wrote  to  the  Secretary:  "I  have  a 
mind  to  retire  to  my  farm,  a  fine  one  in  an  adjoining  county, 
and  enjoy  rural  life  for  the  balance  of  my  days.  I  am  looking 
forward  to  a  country  life."  In  September,  191 1,  he  went  north 
with  Mrs.  Berry  for  a  week's  visit  with  his  son,  John  K.  Berry, 
in  Greenwich,  Conn.  While  calling  at  the  home  of  his  classmate, 
Samuel  H.  Wheeler,  in  Bridgeport,  he  was  taken  seriously  ill 
and  died  suddenly  on  Wednesday,  September  13.  Funeral 
services  were  held  at  his  home  in  Nashville,  on  the  Franklin 
Pike.     The  burial  was  in  Mount  Olivet. 

Berry  was  a  man  universally  beloved  by  his  classmates,  and 
the  world  will  never  seem  quite  the  same  to  any  of  us  now  that 
we  see  his  face  no  more.  He  was  the  perfect  Southern  gentle- 
man, warm-hearted,  sympathetic,  companionable,  always  thought- 
ful of  others,  responding  generously  to  those  in  need. 

The  Nashville  Tennessean  of  September  14  said: 

"Personally,  Mr.  Berry  was  a  man  of  courtly  bearing,  and  possessed 
the  happy  faculty  of  attaching  many  friends  to  him,  who  seemed  to 
rely  upon  him  for  all  the  tender  offices  of  friendship.  He  was  a  public- 
spirited  man,  and  his  views  on  all  public  matters  were  often  sought.  He 
had  the  full  respect  and  esteem  of  his  fellow-lawyers,  who  reposed  in 
him  as  a  man  and  as  a  lawyer  the  utmost  confidence." 

Judge  Robert  Ewing  paid  this  tribute  to  his  friend : 

"He  was  notably  a  charitable  man,  helpful  to  those  in  sorrow  and  dis- 
tress, never  better  satisfied  than  when  he  had  relieved  the  cares  and  set 
at  peace  the  minds  of  those  left  alone  in  life  and  needing  a  wise  counsel- 
lor. By  a  large  class  of  these  he  will  be  sorely  missed,  for  he  was  indeed 
their  friend. 

"Those  who  knew  Mr.  Berry  most  intimately,  and  had  the  opportunity 
of  seeing  what  he  was  quietly  accomplishing,  were  of  opinion  that  the 
finest   trait  of   his   character   was  his   intense   interest  in   the   educational 


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welfare  of  boys  and  girls,  especially  those  who  needed  help.  Number- 
less, almost,  are  the  names  of  those  who  gratefully  remember  him  for 
assistance  rendered. 

"Mr.  Berry  was  a  modest,  retiring  man.  His  own  views  on  all  impor- 
tant questions  were  pronounced,  but  he  never  sought  offensively  to  force 
these  on  others.  He  was  respectful  and  considerate  of  the  feelings  of 
those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  His  education,  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  best  literature,  and  his  keen  sympathy  in  the  affairs  of  life  which 
touched  his  friends,  rendered  him  a  delightful  companion ;  but  most  of 
all  he  was  prized  as  a  friend  in  time  of  sorrow.  Three  days  before  leav- 
ing Nashville  he  went  to  Craggie  Hope,  to  the  bedside  of  a  dying  school- 
mate. Thursday  following,  he  arranged  for  his  funeral  in  the  old  city 
cemetery,  and  was  the  comforting  friend  of  those  left  behind." 


*  Algernon  Sydney  Biddle 

Son  of  George  Washington  and  Maria  (McMurtrie)  Biddle.  His 
father,  George  W.  Biddle,  was  the  son  of  Clement  Cornell  Biddle,  a 
Colonel  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  grandson  of  Colonel  Clement  Biddle, 
an  officer  of  the  Revolutionary  Army,  who  was  known  as  the  "Quaker 
Soldier."  The  family  was  descended  from  William  Biddle,  the  immi- 
grant, who  settled  in  New  Jersey  in  1681. 

Two  brothers  were  graduates  of  Yale  College :  George  W.  Biddle  in 
the  Class  of  '63,  and  Arthur  Biddle  in  the  Class  of  '73. 

Algernon  S.  Biddle  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  October  II, 
1847,  and  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  school  kept  by  Rev.  James 
Gilbourne  Lyons,  near  Rosemont,  a  station  on  the  line  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad. 

He  joined  our  class  at  Yale  at  the  beginning  of  the  third  term 
of  Sophomore  year,  and  at  once  took  a  high  rank  as  a  scholar. 
In  mathematics  and  kindred  subjects  none  could  surpass  him. 
He  took  first  prize  in  mathematics,  wrote  for  the  Lit,  and  was 
awarded  the  Berkeley  Scholarship  at  graduation. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  spent  in  Germany,  chiefly  for 
the  purpose  of  mastering  the  German  language.  He  returned 
at  the  end  of  the  year  to  his  home  in  Philadelphia  and  entered 
upon  the  study  of  his  profession,  the  law,  in  the  office  of  his 
father.  He  succeeded  as  a  lawyer,  and  as  a  man  was  honored  by 
all  who  met  him.  He  argued  great  causes,  and  was  chosen 
one  of  the  Professors  of  Law  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. His  voice  was  heard  on  the  public  stage  in  aid  of  good 
government. 


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75 


After  a  brief  illness,  he  died  in  Philadelphia,  April  8,  1891. 
He  was  stricken  down  in  the  midst  of  his  usefulness,  and 
before  he  had  had  the  opportunity  to  show  all  that  was  in  him. 
Those  of  us  who  were  with  him  in  college  knew  that  above  his 
talents  and  his  industry  stood  out  the  natural  kindliness,  the 
manliness,  courage  and  truthfulness  which  formed  the  chief 
attraction  of  his  character. 

Biddle  was  married  June  28,  1879,  to  Frances  Robinson, 
daughter  of  Moncure  Robinson  of  Philadelphia,  and  had  four 
children:  Moncure,  born  October  2J,  1882,  a  student  in  Harvard 
College  from  1901  to  1904;  George  Washington,  born  January 
27,  1885,  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1908  and  from 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  191 1 ;  Francis  Beverley,  born  May  9, 
1886,  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1909  and  from  the 
Harvard  Law  School  in  191 1;  Sydney  Geoffrey,  born  June  16, 
1889,  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  19 13. 


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Charles  William  Bingham 

Son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Beardsley)  Bingham.  His  father  was 
born  in  Andover,  Conn.,  and  was  son  of  Cyrus  Bingham.  His  Bingham 
ancestors  settled  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  but  soon  removed  to  Andover,  where 
five  generations  lie  in  the  old  cemetery.  Some  of  them  were  soldiers  in 
the  War  of  1812.  His  mother  was  of  Quaker  descent;  her  father,  David 
H.  Beardsley,  came  from  Philadelphia  to  northern  Ohio  in  1820,  and  was 
appointed,  by  Governor  Jeremiah  Morrow,  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  in  1824. 

Charles  W.  Bingham  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  May  22, 
1846,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
New  Haven.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Jubilee  Com- 
mittee and  of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee ;  was  Second  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  Glyuna  Boat  Club  in  Sophomore  year  and  Captain 
of  the  '68  Boat  Club  in  Senior  year,  rowed  on  the  Glyuna  or  class 
crew  every  fall  and  spring  while  in  college  and  was  stroke  of 
the  Glyuna  Shell  and  of  the  '68  Shell  in  Senior  year. 

He  went  abroad  soon  after  graduation,  and  the  greater  part  of 
the  years  1868,  1869  and  1870  were  spent  in  Europe  in  study  and 
travel.  On  his  return  to  Cleveland,  he  was  for  one  year  in  the 
employ  of  the  hardware  firm  of  William  Bingham  &  Company, 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  7  7 

when  he  began  with  the  Cleveland  Iron  Company  and  worked  his 
way  up  through  the  various  grades  to  that  of  General  Superin- 
tendent. In  1878  he  went  back  to  William  Bingham  &  Company 
as  a  member  of  the  firm. 

During  his  active  and  useful  life  he  has  had  his  share  of  posi- 
tions of  honor  and  trust,  among  which  may  be  mentioned  the 
following:  President  of  the  Standard  Tool  Company,  manufac- 
turers; President  of  the  Standard  Welding  Company,  manu- 
facturers ;  President  of  the  Perry-Payne  Company,  real  estate ; 
President  of  the  Country  Club,  golf,  etc.;  Vice-President  of  the 
\\  .  Bingham  Company,  hardware;  Trustee  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Case  Library;  Trustee  of  Adelbert  College,  of  the  Case 
School  of  Applied  Science,  of  Western  Reserve  Historical  Society, 
of  the  Cleveland  Art  Museum,  and  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church ;  Director  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  of  the  National 
Commercial  Bank,  of  the  Citizens'  Savings  and  Trust  Company, 
and  of  various  other  corporations,  also  of  the  Rowfant  Book 
Club,  and  of  the  University  Club,  of  which  he  was  the  first 
President.  He  likewise  has  had  the  care  of  several  fund-  left 
by  will  for  various  charitable  objects,  or  for  the  encouragement 
and  advancement  of  art  and  education. 

He  was  married  in  Cleveland,  June  8,  1876,  to  Mary  Payne, 
daughter  of  Hon.  II.  B.  Payne  of  the  United  States  Senate,  and 
of  Merry  (Perry)  Payne,  and  has  had  five  children,  all  born  in 
Cleveland : 

Oliver  Perry,  born  December  2,  1877,  died  in  1900  at  his 
home  in  Florida  after  a  seven  years'  struggle  with  valvular  disease 
of  the  heart. 

William,  born  July  20,  1879. 

Elizabeth  Beardsley,  born  September  29,  1881,  married  Septem- 
ber 29,  1910,  to  Dudley  Stuart  Blossom,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
College  in  the  Class  of  1901. 

Frances  Payne,  born  March  29,  1885,  married  to  C.  C.  Bolton, 
a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  in  1905. 

Henry  Payne,  born  December  9,  1887,  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1910,  now  with  the  Upson  Nut  Company,  Cleveland. 
He  was  married  January  13,  19 12,  to  Harriette,  daughter  of 
Caleb  Emery  Gowen. 

Mrs.  Mary  Payne  Bingham  died  in  Florida,  after  a  short 
illness,  on  January  20,  1898. 


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'^Herbert  Boardman 

Son    of    Hon.    Truman    Boardman,    member    of    the    New    York    State 
Senate. 


Herbert  Boardman  was  born  in  Covert,  Seneca  Co.,  N.  Y., 
October  23,  1845,  and  was  a  student  at  the  Trumansburg 
Academy,  under  E.  M.  Maynard,  where  he  pursued  the  studies 
in  preparation  for  Yale.  In  college  he  was  interested  in  boating, 
and  rowed  on  his  class  crew  in  Senior  year. 

After  his  graduation  he  engaged  for  a  short  time  with  his 
brother,  Myron  Boardman,  in  fruit  farming,  near  Trumansburg 
Landing,  and  taught  successfully  in  the  Ithaca  Academy.  After- 
ward, through  the  influence  of  his  uncle,  Judge  Douglass  Board- 
man,  he  received  an  appointment  as  clerk  in  the  General  Land 
Office,  Department  of  the  Interior,  at  Washington.  In  1870  he 
attended  medical  lectures  at  the  Georgetown  University,  where 
he  received  his  degree  of  M.D.  in  March,  1872. 

He  was  married  June  18,  1873,  to  U.  Louise  Cole  of  Covert. 
In  September  of  the  same  year  he  resigned  his  clerkship  at 
Washington  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Rochester.    He  won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  ablest  and 


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most  experienced  physicians  of  the  city,  and  was  summoned  to 
their  consultations.  He  was  elected  President  of  the  Patho- 
logical Society,  January  I,  1875;  attending  physician,  in  turn, 
to  the  Rochester  Free  Dispensary,  April,  1875 ;  and  was  also  a 
member  of  the  city  and  county  medical  societies. 

While  attending  a  patient  who  died  of  malignant  diphtheria, 
the  germs  of  that  disease  were  implanted  in  his  system,  and  after 
an  illness  of  only  four  days,  he  sank  rapidly  and  expired  on  the 
morning  of  July  4,  1875. 

Edward  Green  Bradford 

Son  of  Judge  Edward  G.  and  Mary  Alicia  (Heyward)  Bradford,  is 
a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  from  Governor  Bradford  of  the 
Plymouth  Colony,  and  is  a  great-grandson  of  Thomas  Heyward,  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

Edward  G.  Bradford  was  born  in  Wilmington,  Delaware, 
March  12,  1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  W. 
Murphy  of  that  city. 

Soon  after  leaving  college  he  entered  a  lawyer's  office  in  Wil- 
mington, and  May  9,  1870,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  He  has 
worked  steadily  for  over  forty-three  years,  and  has  long  been 
one  of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  in  Delaware.  May  11,  1897, 
he  was  appointed  United  States  District  Judge  of  the  District 
of  Delaware. 

Bradford  has  taken  considerable  interest  in  politics,  being  still, 
as  he  was  in  college,  a  pronounced  Republican,  which  has  not 
been  favorable  to  his  political  advancement  in  a  Democratic  state. 
In  1881  he  was  a  member  of  the  Delaware  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, received  a  complimentary  vote  for  the  Speakership 
from  the  Republican  members,  and  was  the  acknowledged  leader 
of  the  Republican  party  in  that  body.  In  1888  he  was  chairman 
of  the  Delaware  delegation  to  the  Republican  convention  at 
Chicago,  which  nominated  Harrison  and  Morton.  When  Dela- 
ware elected  a  Republican  Legislature  in  1888,  Bradford  was 
mentioned  for  U.  S.  Senator.  Referring  to  this,  the  Philadelphia 
Times  of  December  17  said: 

"It  is  a  good  thing  to  know  that  there  is  even  a  remote  possibility  of 
having  the  lightning  strike  a  candidate  so  well  equipped.  He  is  the  ablest 
young  lawyer  at  the  Bar  of  the  State,  a  man  with  all  the  qualities  for 
the  high  position,  and  a  favorite  with  all  factions  of  the  party." 


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He  was  the  most  active  member  of  the  Delaware  Constitutional 
Convention  that  framed  the  existing  constitution  of  1897, 
received  the  complimentary  vote  of  the  Republican  members  of 
that  body  for  the  office  of  President  of  the  Convention,  and 
contributed  to  the  constitution  the  provisions  relative  to  the 
purity  of  the  ballot.  For  twenty  years  he  has  been  an  active 
delegate  at  the  General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 
He  is  Governor  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  Delaware ; 


Vice-President  of  the  American  Bar  Association  for  Delaware ; 
member  of  the  International  Maritime  Law  Committee ;  and 
connected  with  many  other  organizations,  social,  scientific,  and 
philanthropic. 

In  advocating  before  President  Taft  the  promotion  of  Judge 
Bradford  from  the  United  States  District  Court  to  the  bench 
of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals,  Col.  Benjamin  Nields,  the  oldest 
practicing  lawyer  at  the  Delaware  Bar,  said : 

"Since  May  II,  1897,  for  nearly  fifteen  years,  he  has  been  a  District 
Judge  who  has  heard  and  tried  cases  in  every  District  in  the  Third 
Circuit. 

"As  a  District  Judge  sitting  in  the  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  he  has 
heard   over   a   hundred   cases   and   decided   over   seventy-five   cases.     His 


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opinions  appear  in  the  Federal  Reporter  from  Volume  82  to  100  inclusive. 
He  has  rendered  notable  decisions  in  admiralty,  patent,  trade-mark,  and 
unfair  competition  cases,  as  shown  in  recent  text-books.  No  writ  of 
error  was  ever  presented  from  the  numerous  criminal  cases  he  has  tried 
in  the  District  of  Delaware,  the  bar  of  Delaware  acquiescing  universally 
in  the  fairness  of  his  charge  to  juries. 

"He  was  designated  by  the  Maritime  Association  of  the  United  States 
to  represent  that  Association  at  the  Venice  Conference  of  the  International 
Maritime  Committee,  where  he  took  an  active  part  and  was  elected  a 
Vice-president  of  the  permanent  International  Maritime  Committee.  He 
attended  and  participated  in  the  Conference  at  Bremen.  Judge  Bradford 
has  had  fifteen  years'  experience  as  a  Judge  in  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals  for  the  Third  Circuit.  We  present  a  candidate  whose  record 
is  established  by  the  decisions  of  that  court.  His  record  will  compare 
favorably  with  the  record  of  any  District  or  Circuit  Judge  in  the  United 
States.  He  is  the  senior  in  commission  of  the  eight  District  Judges  in 
the  Third  Circuit. 

"We  want  him  and  judges  like  him,  who  will  maintain  the  fundamental 
principles  upon  which  our  government  is  founded.  We  therefore  ask 
that  he  may  be  appointed." 

In  commenting-  on  this  much-desired  appointment,  the  editor 
of  the  Wilmington  Star,  in  its  issue  of  February  25,  1912,  said : 

"Bradford's  long  and  honorable  service  as  a  member  of  the  national 
judiciary  is  a  matter  of  pride  to  every  Delawarian,  and  all  of  us  would  be 
glad  to  see  that  service  fittingly  recognized  by  his  elevation  to  a  higher 
and  more  remunerative  post." 

When  through  the  death  of  Justice  Brewer  a  vacancy  occurred 
in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  the  Bench  and  Bar  of 
Delaware  united  in  recommending  Judge  Bradford  for  this 
position,  and  presented  to  President  Taft  the  following  petition : 

"To  the  President  of  the  United  States: 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Bench  and  Bar  of  the  State  of 
Delaware,  respectfully  propose  and  recommend  for  your  consideration, 
Honorable  Edward  G.  Bradford  for  the  existing  vacancy  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States.  He  has  served  for  thirteen  years  as  United 
States  District  Judge  in  the  District  of  Delaware,  with  notable  ability, 
not  only  in  original  causes  which  have  come  before  him  in  the  Circuit  and 
District  Courts,  but  also  in  appellate  causes  in  the  Court  of  Appeals  for 
this   circuit. 

"As  a  lawyer  Judge  Bradford  ranks  with  the  foremost.     In  essential 
qualities  of  mind  and  temperament  and  practical  achievement  as  a  judge, 
we  believe  Judge  Bradford  to  fully  measure  up  to  the  high  standard  of 
the  greatest  of  American  judicial  tribunals." 
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Bradford  was  practically  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  con- 
gressional delegation,  and  of  the  judiciary,  as  well  as  of  the 
lawyers  of  Delaware.  The  nomination  was  supported  by  the 
public  press.  The  Wilmington  Star  of  April  24,  1910,  after 
giving  an  account  of  his  career,  said : 

"Judge  Bradford's  qualifications  as  a  jurist  are  not  questioned,  and  that 
he  is  well  fitted  for  the  high  post  of  Supreme  Court  Judge  is  the  gen- 
eral opinion  of  every  lawyer  and  jurist  in  the  State.  As  Judge,  he  has 
measured  up  to  every  requirement.  Important  cases  in  admiralty,  bank- 
ruptcy, receiverships,  and  patent  cases  have  been  heard  and  determined  by 
him,  and  his  decisions  have  almost  without  exception  been  upheld  when 
appealed  to  a  higher  tribunal." 

The  following  is  from  the  Morning  News  of  the  same  city, 
dated  April  27,  after  Justice  Brewer's  successor  had  been  named : 

"Many  men  were  suggested  for  the  vacant  seat,  and  among  the  names 
offered  was  that  of  the  Honorable  Edward  G.  Bradford  of  the  United 
States  Court  for  the  District  of  Delaware.  Judge  Bradford  is  fitted  for 
a  position  on  the  Supreme  Court  Bench,  but  Delaware  has  never  had  a 
representative  in  that  Court,  which  fact  is  not  to  the  discredit  of  Dela- 
ware, but  instead  seems  to  imply  that  the  State  is  too  small  to  receive 
such  an  honor.  Judge  Bradford  is  unquestionably  one  of  the  strongest 
men  to  be  found  among  the  United  States  Judges,  and  he  has  a  record 
of  the  highest  quality  in  respect  to  opinions  on  important  questions.  Dela- 
ware would  have  been  pleased  to  have  had  Judge  Bradford  advanced 
to  the  Supreme  Court,  but  it  is  also  pleased  to  know  that  he  is  to  be  kept 
in  his  present  position.  He  performs  his  duty  with  dignity,  and  shows 
a  keen  interpretation  of  the  law  that  places  him  in  the  front  ranks  of 
the  members  of  the  national  judiciary." 

Judge  Bradford,  in  expressing  his  appreciation  of  this  nomina- 
tion, said : 

"This  tribute  I  prize  all  the  more  as  it  came  unsought  by  me,  and  origi- 
nated wholly  without  my  knowledge  or  suspicion.  That  my  course  on  the 
bench  has  met  with  such  warm  and  general  approval  as  has  just  been 
shown  will  ever  remain  a  source  of  the  liveliest  satisfaction  to  me.  I 
shall  always  cherish  with  affectionate  gratitude  the  regard  and  esteem  so 
generously  bestowed  upon  me  by  so  many  of  my  fellow-citizens,  regard- 
less of  party.  Such  a  manifestation  of  friendship  and  approval  from 
those  among  whom  my  lot  has  been  cast  affords  me  far  keener  pleasure 
than  would  the  possession  and  enjoyment  of  the  exalted  office  of  which 
they  deemed  me  worthy." 

Bradford  has  written  for  the  press  from  time  to  time  numer- 
ous articles  upon  political  and  social  subjects,  and  has  made  many 
public  addresses. 


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He  was  married  on  the  18th  of  September,  1872,  at  St.  John's 
Episcopal  Church,  Wilmington,  to  Eleuthera  Paulina  du  Pont, 
and  has  had  five  children:  Eleuthera  du  Pont,  born  July  12, 
1873;  Mary  Alicia  Heyward,  born  August  5,  1875;  Edward 
Green,  born  September  II,  1878;  Alexis  Irenee  du  Pont,  born 
February  14,  1880,  died  in  March  of  the  same  year;  Joanna 
du  Pont,  born  July  17,  1881. 

Eleuthera  du  Pont  Bradford  was  married  September  15,  1897, 
in  St.  John's  Church,  Wilmington,  to  Henry  Belin  du  Pont, 
and  has  one  child,  Henry  Belin  du  Pont,  Jr.,  born  July  23,  1898. 

Mary  Alicia  Heyward  Bradford  was  married  April  30,  1902, 
in  Christ  Church  near  "Hagley,"  to  George  Amory  Maddox, 
and  had  one  daughter,  Alicia  Amory  Maddox,  born  August  I, 
1903.  Having  been  divorced  from  Mr.  Maddox,  Mrs.  Maddox 
was  married  on  October  15,  1907,  to  Alfred  Irenee  du  Pont,  in 
New  York. 

Edward  Green  Bradford,  Jr.,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College 
in  the  Class  of  1900.  He  is  a  lawyer,  with  offices  in  Wilmington 
and  residence  at  "Hagley,"  a  few  miles  out  of  the  city.  In  the 
fall  of  1912  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature,  of  which  he 
had  been  a  member  in  1908. 

Joanna  du  Pont  Bradford  was  married  June  21,  1905,  in 
St.  John's  Church,  Wilmington,  to  William  Bush,  and  has  three 
children :  Joanna  du  Pont  Bush,  born  December  2,  1906 ;  Mary 
Hemphill  Bush,  born  May  5,  1908;  and  Martha  Potter  Bush, 
born  April  17,  191 1. 


^William  Chittenden  Bragg 

The  third  child  of  Dr.  Addison  G.  and  Ruby  A.  (Benton)  Bragg.  Dr. 
Addison  G.  Bragg  was  born  in  Springfield,  Vt.,  in  181 1 ;  removed  to  Illi- 
nois about  1839,  where  he  practiced  medicine  for  several  years,  and  later 
removed  to  St.  Louis.  He  was  married  (1)  to  Maria  Fessenden,  who  was 
born  at  Petersboro,  N.  H.,  in  1813,  and  by  whom  he  had  two  children ; 
(2)  to  Ruby  A.  Benton,  born  at  Cornwall,  Vt.,  September  26,  1821,  died 
at  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  in  1903.     By  her  he  had  seven  children. 

William  C.  Bragg  was  born  in  Belleville,  111.,  April  12,  1845, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  in  St.  Louis,  by  Wallace  C.  Wilcox. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Jubilee  Committee,  of  the 


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Junior  Promenade  Committee,  and  of  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee 
Committee  in  Junior  year. 

After  graduating,  he  studied  law  at  St.  Louis,  and,  having 
been  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  187 1,  opened  an  office  at  New  Haven, 
Mo.  In  the  autumn  of  1873  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  where  he 
continued  in  practice  till  his  death.  In  1878  he  removed  his 
residence  to  Kirkwood,  fourteen  miles  from  the  city,  on  the 
Missouri  Pacific  Railway. 


He  edited : 

"A  Digest  of  the  Decisions  of  the  Missouri  Court  of  Appeals,"  in  two 
volumes,  the  first  in  1881,  and  the  second  in  1883. 

"Missouri  Masonic  Law:  a  Digest  of  the  Decisions  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  from  1820  to  1885."     1885. 


He  died  of  congestion  of  the  brain,  September  7,  1895,  at  the 
Alexian  Brothers'  Hospital  in  St.  Louis. 

September  22,  1872,  he  was  married,  at  New  Haven,  Mo.,  to 
Emma  Ross,  the  youngest  of  six  children  of  Captain  John  T. 
and  Eliza  (Hardy)  Ross.  Mrs.  Bragg's  father,  Captain  John 
T.  Ross,  was  of  Scotch  descent  and  came  to  America  as  a  sailor 


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in  early  life.  Her  mother,  Eliza  Hardy,  was  born  at  Marble- 
head  in  1800,  of  English  parents,  was  married  to  Captain  Ross 
in  1828  at  Newburyport,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  Mo.,  in  1865. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bragg-  had  three  children:  Mary  Ross,  born 
October  17,  1873,  at  St.  Louis;  Ruby  Benton,  born  July  27,  1875, 
at  St.  Louis,  died  October  4,  1881 ;  Harry  Nicholas,  born  April 
26,  1880,  at  Kirkwood. 

Mary  Ross  was  married  in  Kirkwood,  to  J.  H.  Ewald  of 
St.  Louis,  and  resides  in  Kirkwood.  Children:  William  Bragg 
Ewald,  born  August  3,  1897,  and  James  Howard  Ewald,  Jr., 
born  March  19,  1900. 

Harry  Nicholas  was  married  in  St.  Louis,  December  17,  1908, 
to  Eleanor  Henley,  who  died  October  20,  1910. 


Chauncey  Bunce  Brewster 

Eldest  son  of  Rev.  Joseph  Brewster  (Yale  College  1842)  and  of  Sarah 
Jane  (Bunce)  Brewster,  and  brother  of  James  H.  Brewster  (Ph.B.  Yale 
1877),  Professor  of  Law  in  the  University  of  Michigan;  Rev.  William  J. 
Brewster  (B.A.  Yale  1881),  Rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Warehouse  Point, 
Conn.;  and  Benjamin  Brewster  (B.A.  Yale  1882),  Missionary  Bishop  of 
Western  Colorado.  He  is  descended  from  Elder  Brewster,  the  leader  of 
the  Mayflower  Colony.  His  grandfather,  James  Brewster,  was  a  public- 
spirited  and  philanthropic  citizen  of  New  Haven,  and  was  one  of  the  cor- 
porators who  secured  the  charter  of  the  Hartford  and  New  Haven 
Railroad.  He  gave  a  new  building  to  the  New  Haven  Orphan  Asylum. 
Two  of  his  mother's  ancestors,  Thomas  Bunce  and  Thomas  Bull,  were 
among  the  founders  of  Hartford.  The  latter  was  in  command  of  the  fort 
at  Saybrook  when  Sir  Edmund  Andrus  attempted  to  capture  it.  His 
great-grandfather,  David  Bunce,  was  in  Colonel  Wolcott's  regiment,  which 
responded  to  the  call  of  Washington  for  troops  from  New  England  in  the 
spring  of  1776. 

Chauncey  B.  Brewster  was  born  in  Windham,  Conn.,  September 
5,  1848,  prepared  for  college  at  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and 
entered  from  Mt.  Carmel,  where  his  father  resided,  being  then 
Rector  of  Christ  Church,  New  Haven.  He  had  Oration  rank  at 
Junior  Exhibition  and  High  Oration  at  Commencement;  won 
first  prize  in  English  Composition  in  both  Sophomore  and  Senior 
years,  first  prize  in  Declamation,  and  first  in  Debate  whenever 
he  entered  the  competition ;  and  was  unanimously  elected  Class 
Historian  and  Class  Orator. 


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The  first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  in  study  in  New 
Haven,  the  second  at  Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Middletown, 
Conn.  He  was  Tutor  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  Yale  College  one 
year,  and  then  continued  his  theological  studies  in  Middletown. 

In  1872  he  was  ordained  Deacon  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  and  served  a  year  as  Assistant  Minister  of  St.  Andrew's 
Church  at  Meriden,  Conn.  May  2,  1873,  he  was  ordained  to  the 
Priesthood,  and  became  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Rye,  N.  Y., 


in  June  following.  On  the  26th  of  February,  1882,  having 
resigned  his  parochial  charge  at  Rye,  he  entered  upon  the  rector- 
ship of  Christ  Church,  Detroit,  Mich.  In  1885  he  accepted  a 
call  to  Grace  Church,  Baltimore,  where  he  remained  till  April, 
1888,  when  he  removed  to  Brooklyn  and  became  Rector  of  Grace 
Church,  Brooklyn  Heights.  In  June,  1897,  he  was  elected  Bishop 
Coadjutor  of  Connecticut  and  was  consecrated  in  New  Haven. 
October  28.  On  February  7,  1899,  he  became  Bishop  of  Con- 
necticut. The  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him 
by  Trinity  in  1897,  by  Yale  in  1898,  and  by  Wesleyan  in  1903. 

He  has  published,  in  addition  to  sermons,  lectures,  and  various 
articles  in  reviews : 


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"The  Key  of  Life,"    Good-Friday  Addresses,  Thomas  Whittaker,  1894. 

"Aspects  of  Revelation,"    Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1901. 

"The  Catholic  Ideal  of  the  Church,"   Thomas  Whittaker,  1905. 

"The  Kingdom  of  God  and  American  Life,"   Thomas  Whittaker,  1912. 

He  was  married  to  Susan  Huntington  Whitney,  daughter  of 
Eli  Whitney,  October  15,  1873,  at  New  Haven.  A  son,  Eli 
Whitney  Brewster,  born  May  15,  1885,  died  on  the  29th  of  the 
same  month.  Mrs.  Brewster  died  May  24,  1885.  On  June  20, 
1893,  he  was  again  married  to  Alice  Tucker  Stephenson,  daughter 
of  George  S.  Stephenson  of  Brooklyn.  A  daughter,  Eleanor 
Longfellow,  was  born  July  5,  1894. 


*Joseph  Scribner  Burns 

•  Son  of  Colonel  John  G.  and  Mary  (Kimball)  Burns.  His  father,  son 
of  John  Burns,  of  French  nationality,  was  a  hustling  business  man,  a 
farmer,  a  brick  maker,  and  manager  of  extensive  lumber  business  on  the 
great  lakes  of  Maine.  He  was  active  in  politics  and  acquainted  with  many 
of  the  prominent  public  men  of  his  day.  His  mother  was  daughter  of 
Peter  Kimball,  a  carriage  maker,  four  of  whose  sons,  in  connection  with 
George  and  David  Cook,  once  had  a  large  carriage  factory  in  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Joseph  S.  Burns  was  born  in  Oxford,  Me.,  January  14,  1842, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  N.  T.  True,  Bethel,  Me.  He 
came  to  Yale  from  Bowdoin  College,  and  entered  the  class  in 
September,  1867. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  went  to  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  made  the 
South  his  home  for  ten  years.  He  first  engaged  in  railroad 
business,  and,  at  the  time  he  left  it,  he  was  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Brunswick  and  Albany  Railroad.  In  1871  he 
returned  to  the  study  of  medicine,  which  he  had  abandoned  some 
years  before  to  prepare  for  the  academic  course.  He  was  grad- 
uated at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City, 
in  the  Class  of  '73,  and  entered  into  practice  at  once  in  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn.  In  the  course  of  his  practice  in  that  city,  he  took 
his  turn  in  serving  as  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  City  Hospital. 
In  the  epidemic  of  yellow  fever  which  reached  Memphis  soon 
after  cholera  had  subsided,  he  was  appointed  by  the  Mayor 
of  Chattanooga  as  one  of  the  Quarantine  Officers  to  inspect 
Memphis  trains. 


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In  the  summer  of  1874,  while  visiting  charity  patients  in  the 
country,  he  received  a  partial  sunstroke,  from  which  he  did  not 
make  a  good  recovery,  and  feeling  much  depressed  the  following 
spring,  he  left  the  South,  expecting  never  to  revisit  it.  In  Octo- 
ber, however,  having,  as  he  thought,  fully  recovered,  he  returned, 
but  passed  an  indifferent  winter,  and  from  the  spring  of  1876 
till  his  final  return  to  the  North  in  April,  1879,  his  health 
constantly  declined. 


In  the  fall  of  1880,  being  much  improved  in  health,  he 
engaged  at  the  Highland  Military  Academy,  Worcester,  Mass., 
where  he  remained  four  years,  the  last  three  as  Head  Master. 
He  spent  the  next  two  years  at  Chester,  Pa.,  as  Professor  of 
Latin  and  Greek  in  the  Pennsylvania  Military  College.  In  1886 
he  became  Master  of  Mathematics  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  School, 
at  Garden  City,  L.  I.  From  1889  to  1894  he  was  Principal  of 
public  schools  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  resigned  this  position 
March  6,  1894,  and  removed  to  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  where  he 
had  lived  at  various  times  for  about  twenty  years.  From  1899 
to  [906  he  was  Principal  of  the  High  School  in  Hardwick,  Mass. 
On  February   13  of  the  latter  year  he  was  taken  seriously  ill 


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in  the  school  room,  and  was  not  able  to  teach  after  that  date. 
His  home  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  was  in  Braintree,  Mass. 
His  service  as  teacher  and  principal  covered  a  period  of  twenty- 
six  years. 

After  a  long  illness  he  died  July  26,  1913,  at  Ashmont,  Mass., 
from  locomotor  ataxia. 

While  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Chattanooga,  he 
published  the  following  papers: 

"On  the  Diagnostic  Value  of  Certain  Symptoms  in  the  Early  Stages  of 
Small  Pox."     Boston  Journal  of  Medicine  and  Surgery. 

"On  Medication  by  Hypodermic  Injection."  Nashville  Journal  of  Medi- 
cine and  Surgery,  August.  1874. 

"On  the  Pathology  of  Cholera."  Nashville  Journal  of  Medicine  and 
Surgery,  August,  1874- 


*John  Marvin  Chapin 

The  only  son  of  Marvin  and  Rebecca  (Stow)  Chapin,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  May  15,  1844. 

After  having  attended  the  Academy  at  Westfield,  Mass.,  and 
YVilliston  Seminary  at  Easthampton,  he  completed  his  prepara- 
tion for  college  under  the  late  Rev.  Henry  M.  Colton  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn. 

In  college,  though  not  a  brilliant  scholar,  he  was  a  faithful 
student,  and  derived  more  benefit  from  his  studies  than  many 
who  ranked  above  him  in  scholarship.  He  gave  time  to  debating, 
was  a  competitor  in  the  Linonia  Sophomore  Prize  Debate,  and 
was  President  of  Linonia  during  the  second  term  of  Senior  year. 
He  was  especially  prominent  for  his  religious  activity,  was  a 
member  of  the  College  Church  Committee,  and  was  also  engaged 
in  work  in  the  Mission  Sunday  Schools  of  the  city.  During 
his  last  year  he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Temple  Street  Sunday 
School. 

After  graduation,  he  spent  a  few  months  in  the  office  of  an 
insurance  company  in  Springfield.  In  February,  1869,  he  went 
out  with  another  gentleman  from  Springfield,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  to  labor  among  the 
churches  of  Hampden  County  which  had  no  pastors.  His  first 
service  was  at  North  Blanford,  Mass.,  where  the  people  were 
so  much  attracted  to  him  that  he  was  induced  to  continue  his 


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work  there  for  several  months.  Here  he  awakened  a  new  interest 
among  those  who,  before  his  coming,  had  been  discouraged  and 
divided,  and  they  were  anxious  to  settle  him,  even  then,  as  their 
pastor. 

In  the  following  autumn,  he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary 
in  Hartford,  Conn.  On  May  9,  1871,  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by 
the  Association  at  Springfield,  and  in  November  following,  soon 
after  entering  upon  his  last  year  at  the  Seminary,  he  received 


a  call  to  the  First  Church  in  West  Springfield,  Mass.,  which, 
after  much  deliberation,  he  accepted.  On  the  19th  of  June, 
1872,  he  was  ordained  to  the  work  of  the  ministry.  After  a 
pastorate  of  only  four  months,  he  was  prostrated  by  typhoid 
fever,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Springfield,  Friday  evening, 
October  25,  at  ten  o'clock. 

In  college  Chapin  was  universally  respected  and  beloved.  His 
genial  good  nature  made  him  a  welcome  companion  and  endeared 
him  to  all.  There  was  no  insincerity  and  no  selfishness  in  his 
nature.  Though  he  was  generous  in  his  judgment  of  others  and 
saw  something  good  in  every  one,  few  could  warn  a  companion 
of  danger  or  administer  a  rebuke  so  effectively  as  he. 


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From  boyhood  he  had  a  strong  desire  to  preach  the  gospel, 
and  when  the  time  came  for  him  to  engage  in  the  work  to  which 
he  had  so  long  looked  forward,  he  did  it  with  great  earnestness 
and  an  entire  consecration  of  everything  to  Christ.  He  teemed 
to  have  but  one  thought,  and  that  was  to  be  a  faithful  minister 
of  the  gospel  whose  influence  would  lead  men  to  the  Saviour. 
Yet  he  undertook  his  work  with  very  great  self-distrust.  A  sense 
of  the  high  responsibilities  of  the  office  of  a  Christian  minister, 
of  his  own  unfitness  for  the  work,  and  of  his  unworthiness  to 
stand  as  the  ambassador  for  Christ,  seemed  at  times  almost  to 
overpower  him.  Joined  with  this,  however,  was  a  simple  faith 
in  God.  And  thus,  notwithstanding  his  natural  distrust  of  his 
own  abilities,  he  undertook  with  confidence  the  duties  of  a  very 
difficult  position  in  a  church  nearly  two  centuries  old,  which  had 
enjoyed  the  ministrations  of  many  eminent  men. 

As  a  preacher,  he  was  peculiarly  acceptable.  He  sought  to 
set  forth  the  truth  in  a  plain,  earnest  way,  and  his  sermons  are 
characterized  by  those  who  heard  them  as  having  been  "filled 
with  the  spirit  of  Christ."  As  a  pastor,  his  influence  was  very 
great.  He  seemed  fitted  by  nature  for  the  pastoral  office.  His 
heart  was  full  of  love  and  sympathy,  and  he  could  not  help 
manifesting  the  most  tender  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his  people. 
His  simple  invitation  to  them  on  the  first  Sabbath  after  his 
settlement  was  as  sincere  as  any  words  ever  spoken:  "If  any 
of  you  are  ill,  summon  me ;  if  any  are  dying,  let  me  know  it  ere 
the  feet  touch  the  silent  waters ;  if  any  are  burdened  with  guilt 
and  there  arises  in  the  heart  a  longing  to  know  of  Jesus,  you 
will  always  be  welcomed.  I  shall  ever  be  anxious  to  know  of 
your  cares  and  sorrows,  that  I  may  speak  words  of  comfort  in 
season.  Come  then  to  me,  for  I  desire  to  be  a  friend  to  the 
young  and  a  helper  to  all." 

During  the  first  two  months  of  his  pastorate,  he  visited  every 
resident  member  of  the  church,  and  nearly  every  family  in  the 
parish,  and  he  soon  became  devotedly  attached  to  his  flock,  and 
ardently  beloved  by  all.  His  genial  ways,  his  consistent  life, 
and  his  earnestness  in  the  pulpit,  produced  a  growing  and  deep- 
ening interest  in  religious  things.  When  just  entering  upon  a 
life  giving  such  promise  of  usefulness,  he  was  suddenly  called 
to  a  higher  service. 


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*  Timothy  Pitkin  Chapman 

Second  son  of  Timothy  Pitkin  and  Rachel  Thompson  (Hartwell)  Chap- 
man, and  brother  of  Dr.  S.  Hartwell  Chapman  (Yale  College  1866)  and 
John  H.  Chapman  (Ph.B.  Yale  1876).  His  mother  was  a  descendant  of 
Roger  Sherman. 

Timothy  P.  Chapman  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  June  24, 
1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Anthon's  Grammar  School 
in  New  York  City.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the  Fresh- 
man Class  in  Yale  College.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Junior 
Promenade  Committee,  ranked  in  scholarship  among  the  High 
Orations,  and  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition  and 
at  Commencement. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  entered  Columbia  College 
Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1870, 
and  became  a  member  of  the  New  York  Bar.  While  attending 
the  Law  School  he  also  studied  in  the  office  of  Seward,  Griswold, 
Blatchford  &  DaCosta,  a  distinguished  law  firm  in  the  city  of 
New  York.  Before  entering  upon  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession  he  went  to  Europe,  where  he  spent  fifteen  months  in 
travel  and  study,  and  on  his  return  to  this  country,  in  the  autumn 


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of  1871,  he  again  connected  himself  with  the  law  office  above 
named  and  in  the  spring  of  1874  he  became  junior  member  of 
the  firm. 

On  November  25,  1873,  he  was  married  to  Leila  Tisdale  of 
Brooklyn,  and  lived  in  that  city  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
September  13,  1875.  His  wife  survived  him  with  one  child, 
Leila  Ilartwell  Chapman,  born  March  4,  1875. 


*Elihu  Leach  Clark 

Son  of  Honorable  Elihu  Leach  and  Isabella  T.  (Beane)  Clark.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Walworth,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  who  removed 
early  in  life  to  Adrian,  Lenawee  County,  Mich.,  where  he  became  a  lead- 
ing citizen. 

Elihu  L.  Clark  was  born  in  Adrian,  April  25,  1846,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary.  He  entered  Yale 
in  September,  1863,  and  remained  with  the  Class  of  '67  till  the 
end  of  Junior  year.  At  the  beginning  of  the  following  winter 
term  he  joined  '68. 

For  some  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  private 
banking  and  real  estate  with  his  father  at  Adrian.  His  residence 
was  in  Detroit  and  his  office  at  Adrian,  where  his  business  was 
carried  on.  After  1881  he  spent  much  time  in  foreign  travel, 
visiting  Switzerland,  Germany,  Holland,  Belgium,  France,  Eng- 
land, Scotland,  and  Italy.  When  in  America  his  residence  was 
generally  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  after 
the  reunion  in  1903,  he  wrote: 

"I  should  have  enjoyed  seeing  my  beloved  friends  and  classmates  once 
more,  yet  have  been  denied  this  happiness.  By  care  and  forethought  I 
have  kept  in  comfortable  health,  but  have  not  been  able  to  do  what  a 
good  and  loyal  son  of  Yale  is  naturally  prompted  to  do  for  his  Alma 
Mater  and  for  his  fellow  men.  Living  in  the  neighborhood  of  Boston 
for  the  reason  that  it  has  been  more  congenial  to  my  tastes  and  health, 
I  have  been  no  less  loyal  to  our  beloved  Alma  Mater,  whose  name  and 
precepts  produce  inspiration  and  a  benediction  wherever  one  goes." 

He  attended  the  Yale  Commencement  in  1906.  While  in  New 
Haven  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill,  and  died  at  the  Hotel  Daven- 
port, June  28,  at  the  age  of  sixty  years. 


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He  was  married  at  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  October  13,  1874,  to 
Margaret  M.,  daughter  of  Morris  Miller  and  Elizabeth  S. 
(Stratford)  Davidson,  and  had  one  daughter,  Lucretia  Davidson, 
born  at  Adrian  September  20,  1875. 


John  Coats 

Son  of  Ansel  and  Eunice  (Randall)  Coats.  His  ancestors  on  both  his 
father's  and  his  mother's  side  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  town 
of  Stonington,  Conn.,  coming  from  Rhode  Island.  Through  the  Grey  and 
Peabody  families,  he  traces  his  ancestry  back  to  John  and  Priscilla  Alden. 
Colonel  Randall,  his  grandfather,  commanded  the  Thirteenth  Connecticut 
Regiment  at  the  time  of  the  attack  on  Stonington  in  1813,  and  his  father, 
Ansel  Coats,  was  a  Captain  in  the  same  regiment. 

Colonel  William  Randall  was  born  March  25,  1763,  and  died  June  14. 
1841.  He  was  six  times  elected  a  Representative  to  the  Connecticut  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  and  was  State  Senator  in  1822 ;  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Convention  which  framed  the  present  Constitution  of  Connecticut 
in  1818,  and  was  an  Associate  Judge  of  the  County  Court  from  1818  to 
1833. 


John  Coats  was  born  in   North   Stonington,   Conn.,   May  9, 
1842,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Connecticut  Literary 


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Institution,  Suffield,  where  he  was  a  classmate  of  John  Lewis  and 
Oscar  Harger.  Before  coming  to  college  he  served  in  the  army 
one  year,  in  the  Twenty-second  Connecticut  Volunteers. 

He  was  one  of  the  prominent  speakers  in  college.  He  won 
prizes  in  Composition,  Declamation,  and  Debate ;  represented 
Linonia  as  orator  in  the  Statement  of  Facts;  and  was  Vice- 
President  of  Linonia  in  the  second  term  of  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Connecticut  Literary 
Institution  one  year,  then  studied  law  in  Hartford  and  in  the 
Columbia  College  Law  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
from  Columbia  in  1871. 

In  October,  1871,  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Chicago, 
but,  on  account  of  the  great  fire  in  that  city,  he  returned  to 
Connecticut  in  1872  and  again  became  instructor  in  the  Institu- 
tion at  Suffield.  In  April,  1877,  he  was  appointed  Principal  of  the 
High  School  at  Windsor  Locks,  Conn.,  but  a  few  years  later 
he  took  up  again  the  practice  of  law.  In  1884  he  represented 
Windsor  Locks  in  the  Connecticut  Legislature,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  Judiciary.  About  the  beginning  of  the 
year  1887  he  opened  a  law  office  in  New  Britain,  where  he  has 
since  been  located.  In  1894  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Probate 
Court  for  the  District  of  Berlin,  Conn.,  which  office  he  held 
eight  years ;  also  Associate  Judge  of  the  City  Court  of  New 
Britain.  In  1901  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  Hartford  County.  Upon  his  retirement  by 
the  age  limit  in  191 2,  he  was  appointed  a  State  Referee,  which 
office  he  now  holds. 

He  was  married  to  Josephine  L.  Walker,  June  2.2,  1871,  in 
Hartford.  They  have  no  children.  Mrs.  Coats  traces  her 
ancestry  back  to  early  times  in  Rhode  Island,  the  family  being 
remarkable  for  the  large  number  in  different  generations  who 
have  been  engaged  in  the  Christian  ministry. 


*  James  Coffin 

Son  of  Edmund  and  Sarah  Harrison   (Lamdin)   Coffin,  and  brother  of 
Edmund  Coffin   (Yale  College  1866). 

James  Coffin  was  born  in  New  York  City,  October  13,  1847,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  by  Edward  B.  Coe,  afterward  Street 


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Professor  of  Modern  Languages  at  Yale.  He  came  to  college 
from  Irvington,  N.  Y.,  to  which  place  his  father  had  removed  a 
few  years  previous. 

In  scholarship  he  ranked  among  the  best  twelve,  won  prizes 
in  English  Composition  and  Debate,  and  was  one  of  the  speakers 
at  Junior  Exhibition.  He  was  also  one  of  the  most  prominent 
athletes  in  college  in  his  time,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in 
modern  baseball.     He  rowed  on  the  Varuna  shell  crew  in  Soph- 


omore year.  At  the  beginning  of  Junior  year  he  was  pitcher  on 
the  Yale  nine,  and  Captain,  but  developing  into  a  superior  oars- 
man, he  resigned  his  position  \>n  the  Nine  and  was  given  a  place 
on  the  University  Crew  and  rowed  in  the  race  with  Harvard  on 
Lake  Quinsigamond  at  Worcester  in  July,  1867. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  entered  the  banking  house  of  Drexel, 
Morgan  &  Company  (now  J.  P.  Morgan  Company),  and  was 
afterwards  for  a  short  time  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  in  Omaha, 
Nebr.  In  1875  he  went  to  San  Francisco  and  engaged  in  banking, 
at  first  with  a  savings  bank  and  afterwards  in  the  Nevada  Bank. 
In   1879  ne  removed  to  Portland,  Oregon,  and  remained  there 


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about  six  years,  when  he  returned  to  San  Francisco.  He  dealt 
in  stocks  and  bonds. 

Coffin  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  in  the  manufacture  of 
beet  sugar  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Alameda  Sugar  Company  and  later  of  the  Union  Sugar 
Company.  He  put  into  the  business  all  of  his  energies  and 
splendid  abilities,  and  it  succeeded  even  beyond  his  expectations. 
The  new  factory  of  the  Alameda  Sugar  Company  is  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  perfect  on  the  Coast. 

Coffin  was  a  man  of  great  strength  of  character,  a  man  of 
courage,  and  intense  earnestness,  and  of  strong  convictions.  No 
one  ever  had  a  doubt  as  to  where  he  stood  on  any  question  of 
right  and  wrong.  In  all  his  business  transactions  he  was  known 
as  a  man  who  represented  things  just  as  they  were. 

December  5,  1878,  he  was  married,  in  Trinity  Church,  San 
Francisco,  to  Sarah  Lucia  Allen,  daughter  of  Lucius  Hamilton 
Allen  (West  Point  1842)  and  of  Sarah  deWitt  Allen,  and  sister 
of  John  deWitt  Hamilton  Allen  (Yale  College  1876).  They 
had  three  daughters : 

Marion,  born  March  22,  1882,  at  Portland,  married  September 
26,  1903,  to  John  Shepard  Eells  (Yale  College  1901)  ;  Natalie, 
born  December  20,  1885,  in  Ross  Valley,  Marin  Co.,  Cal., 
married  August  24,  1912,  to  A.  Crawford  Greene  (Yale  College 
1906)  ;    Sarah  deWitt,  born  August  31,  1888,  in  Ross  Valley. 

James  Coffin  died  of  pneumonia  at  his  residence,  Ross,  Marin 
Co.,  Cal.,  on  December  28,  1906. 


LeBaron  Bradford  Colt 

Son  of  Christopher  and  Theodora  G.  (DeWolf)  Colt,  and  brother  of 
Colonel  Samuel  Pomeroy  Colt,  Attorney  General  of  Rhode  Island,  1882-85. 
His  father,  Christopher  Colt,  was  son  of  Christopher  and  a  descendant 
in  the  sixth  generation  of  John  Colt,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Windsor, 
Conn.  His  mother  was  daughter  of  General  George  DeWolf  and  a 
descendant  of  Charles  DeWolf,  the  ancestor  of  the  Rhode  Island  DeWolf s. 

LeBaron  B.  Colt  was  born  in  Dedham,  Mass.,  June  25,  1846, 
studied  under  Alonzo  Lewis  of  New  Hartford  and  Rev.  F.  W. 
Osborn  of  Hartford,  and  finished  his  preparation  for  college  at 
Williston  Seminary. 


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Immediately  after  graduation  from  Yale  he  entered  Columbia 
College  Law  School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
May,  1870.     The  following  year  was  spent  in  traveling  in  Europe. 

In  1 87 1  he  began  practicing  in  Chicago,  in  company  with  L.  L. 
Palmer  (Yale  College  1867),  under  the  firm  name  of  Palmer  & 
Colt.  The  great  Chicago  fire  destroyed  the  office  of  the  firm  and 
the  house  in  which  Colt  lived,  and  he  decided  to  return  East.  In 
1876  he  located  in  Rhode  Island,  living  in  Bristol  and  practicing 


in  Providence.  He  was  associated  with  Francis  Colwell,  later  City 
Solicitor  of  Providence,  under  the  firm  name  of  Colwell  &  Colt, 
and  continued  in  practice  till  he  was  placed  on  the  bench. 

In  1879  he  was  elected  by  the  town  of  Bristol  to  the  General 
Assembly  of  Rhode  Island  and  served  two  terms.  In  March, 
1881,  during  his  second  term  in  the  Assembly,  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Garfield  United  States  District  Judge  for  Rhode 
Island;  and  on  July  6,  1884,  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Arthur  United  States  Circuit  Judge  for  the  First  Judicial  District, 
including  Maine,  Xew  Hampshire,  Massachusetts,  and  Rhode 
[sland.      In    1891   a   Circuit   Court   of   Appeals   was    formed   to 


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relieve  the  work  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  and  Judge 
Colt  was  selected  as  Presiding  Justice. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  M.A.  from  Brown  in  1882, 
and  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Columbia  in  1904,  and 
from  Yale  in  1905.  He  was  elected  United  States  Senator  from 
the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  January  21,  1913,  for  the  term  of 
six  years,  beginning  March  4,  191 3. 

He  has  been  a  loyal  citizen  of  Bristol.  In  1880  he  delivered 
the  address  at  the  Bicentennial  Celebration  of  the  town,  and  in 
1883  the  address  at  the  Laying  of  the  Corner  Stone  of  the 
Burnside  Memorial  Building  in  that  place. 

On  the  Sunday  following  his  election  as  United  States  Senator, 
the  Providence  Tribune  said : 

"Much  of  the  fame  and  reputation  achieved  by  Judge  Colt  rests  upon 
his  decisions  in  patent  cases,  among  them  being  the  Bell  telephone  suits. 
The  most  notable  concerned  the  Berliner  long  distance  telephone  patent 
owned  by  Bell.  Judge  Colt  wrote  the  opinion  for  the  Court  of  Appeals, 
holding  that  Berliner  was  not  the  inventor  of  the  long  distance  telephone. 
An  important  place  in  the  law  reports  is  occupied  by  other  cases  which 
Judge  Colt  decided  or  in  which  he  wrote  the  opinion  of  the  Court.  He 
sat  on  the  Edison-Baker  cases,  and  heard  much  of  the  litigation  over  the 
shoe  machinery  cases,  sewing  machine  cases,  admiralty  cases  (embracing  all 
matters  and  crimes  on  the  high  seas),  custom  house  cases,  copyright  and 
trade-mark  cases,  in  all  of  which  he  showed  a  remarkably  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  the  business  involved. 

"Judge  Colt's  tastes  are  literary  and  scholarly  as  well,  and  with  all  his 
duties  on  the  bench,  he  has  managed  to  find  ample  time  for  study,  his 
library  containing  over  five  thousand  volumes.  His  ever-constant  interest 
in  national  political  questions  has  been  shown  by  his  addresses,  a  volume 
of  which  he  has  published.  One  of  these  had  for  its  subject  Chief  Jus- 
tice John  Marshall,  delivered  at  the  celebration  by  Brown  University 
and  the  Rhode  Island  Bar  Association  in  1901.  In  the  following  year,  at 
Concord,  N.  H.,  Judge  Colt  spoke  on  'The  Protection  of  the  President 
of  the  United  States,'  following  the  assassination  of  President  McKinley. 
Other  addresses  by  Judge  Colt  are :  'Law  and  Reasonableness,'  before 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Bar  Association  in  1903;  'Contribu- 
tions of  Rhode  Island  to  the  American  Union,'  the  principal  address  at 
the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  on  Rhode  Island  Day,  October  5,  1904; 
and  'America's  Solution  of  the  Problem  of  Government,'  at  Fanueil 
Hall  in  1904. 

"As  a  lawyer,  as  a  Rhode  Island  legislator,  as  a  Justice  of  the  United 
States  District  and  Circuit  Courts,  and  as  the  Presiding  Justice  of  one 
of  the  United  States  Courts  of  Appeals,  Judge  Colt  has  been  constantly 
and  invariably  the  true  representative   of   the  best  American   ideals,   the 


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faithful  exponent  of  American  principles,  and  the  stanch  upholder  of  the 
American  constitution  and  American  laws." 

December  17,  1873,  he  was  married  to  Alary  Louise  Ledyard, 
daughter  of  Guy  Ledyard  of  Chicago  and  descendant  of  the 
Ledyards  of  Newburgh  and  New  London.  They  have  had  six 
children :  Theodora  Ledyard,  born  January  27,  1875 ;  LeBaron 
Carlton,  born  February  26,  1877 ;  Guy  Pomeroy,  born  December 
4,  1878,  died  November  17,  1885  ;  Alary  Louise,  born  July  25, 
1880;  Elizabeth  Linda,  born  October  29,  1887;  Beatrice,  born 
June  1,  1891 ;   the  first  at  Chicago,  the  others  at  Bristol. 

Theodora  Ledyard  was  married  January  17,  1900,  to  Edwin 
Armington  Barrows  of  Providence,  R.  I.  They  have  three 
children:  Theodora  Barrows,  born  January  8,  1901 ;  Edwin 
Armington  Barrows,  Jr.,  born  February  11,  1903;  Barbara 
Barrows,  born  August  6,  1909. 

LeBaron  Carlton  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from 
Brown  University  in  1899.  On  June  10,  1903,  he  was  married  to 
Edith  Converse,  daughter  of  the  late  Admiral  George  Converse  of 
the  United  States  Navy.  They  have  three  children :  LeBaron 
Carlton  Colt,  Jr.,  born  March  10,  1904;  Joujou  Edith  Converse 
Colt,  born  October  3,  1907 ;  George  Albert  Converse  Colt,  born 
October  19,  1908.  Mr.  Colt  is  Manager  of  the  National  India 
Rubber  Company  and  resides  at  Bristol. 

Mary  Louise  was  married  January  17,  1907,  to  Harold  Judson 
Gross  of  Providence,  R.  I. 

Elizabeth  Linda  was  married  January  17,  19 12,  to  Andrew 
Weeks  Anthony  of  Boston.  They  have  one  boy:  Silas  Reed 
Anthony,  2d,  born  October  30,  191 2. 


*Horace  Stephens  Cooper 

Eldest  son  of  Edmund  and  Mary  E.  (Stephens)  Cooper.  Edmund 
Cooper  was  Private  Secretary  of  President  Andrew  Johnson  and 
Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  his  administration,  and  was 
brother  of  William  F.  Cooper  (Yale  College  1838),  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Tennessee  from  1878  to  1886,  and  of  Hon.  Henry 
Cooper,  United  States  Senator  from  Tennessee  from  1871  to  1877. 

Horace  S.  Cooper  was  born  in  Bedford  County,  Tenn.,  April 
25,  1846,  and  entered  college  from  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  having  been 


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prepared  at  the  Collegiate  Institute,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  He  was 
especially  interested  in  debating  and  was  President  of  Linonia  in 
the  first  term  of  Senior  year. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  Shelby ville, 
where  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1870.  After  practicing 
several  years  in  Shelbyville,  he  removed  to  Columbia,  Tenn.,  and 
devoted  his  attention  chiefly  to  the  management  of  his  farm. 
From  1879  to  1883  he  was  Clerk  of  the  Chancery  Court  for  Maury 
Count  v. 


In  1889  he  removed  to  Nashville  to  engage  in  newspaper  busi- 
ness, being  connected  till  1891  with  the  Nashville  Evening  Herald, 
and  after  that  time  with  the  Nashville  Daily  American,  the  leading 
Democratic  daily  of  the  state,  of  which  he  was  Managing  Editor 
till  1899,  when  he  returned  to  Shelbyville  and  resumed  the  practice 
of  law. 

He  was  married  January  13,  1881,  at  Spring  Hill,  Maury  Co., 
Tenn.,  to  Ella  Polk,  daughter  of  Lucius  J.  Polk,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Col.  William  Polk,  who  served  through  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Miss  Ella  Polk  was  a  relative  of  President  Polk, 
and  niece  of  Leonidas  Polk,  bishop  of  the  diocese  of  Louisiana, 


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who  was  Major  General  in  the  Confederate  Army  in  the  Civil 
War,  and  was  killed  at  Pine  Mountain,  Ga.,  June  14,  1864.  ^r- 
and  Mrs.  Cooper  had  one  child,  Horace  Polk,  born  January  2, 
1887,  near  Columbia,  who  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in 
19 10,  and  is  now  deputy  consul  at  Bordeaux. 

Cooper  died  of  heart  failure  at  Shelby ville,  February  10,  1907, 
and  was  buried  in  Willow  Mount  Cemetery. 

A  member  of  the  Shelbyville  P>ar  said  of  him : 

"He  had  an  even  disposition ;  his  politeness  and  pleasant  manner  to 
everybody  impressed  me;  he  was  free  from  rashness  of  speech  and 
always  serene  as  the  sunshine;  he  had  a  wonderful  power  of  self-control 
and  bridled  his  temper  and  his  tongue.  When  asked  on  one  occasion,  as 
we  were  traveling  on  the  train  together  to  attend  the  Supreme  Court  at 
Nashville,  how  he  managed  to  preserve  such  a  uniform  temper,  he  replied : 
'Life  is  too  short  to  give  way  to  temper  and  say  unkind  things.'  He 
was  a  sound  lawyer,  with  a  high  regard  for  the  truth,  cautious  in  stating 
the  facts  in  a  case,  and  not  given  to  exaggerating  them  in  favor  of  his 
client." 

The  Shelbyville  Gazette  said : 

"As  a  lawyer  he  was  not  an  orator,  but  he  was  blessed  with  a  legal 
mind,  and  as  a  legal  adviser  and  in  legal  council  his  powers  shone  with 
splendor.  He  was  a  man  well-versed  in  the  ancient  and  modern  classics, 
and  was  conversant  with  current  events.  As  a  man  he  was  greatly 
beloved  because  of  his  purity  of  character  and  sterling  integrity.  A 
falsehood,  a  vulgarity,  or  an  oath  was  never  heard  to  escape  his  lips, 
and  he  was  never  known  to  speak  evil  of  any  one.'' 


*  George  Hubert  Cowell 

Son  of  Nelson  and  Jeannette  (Bronson)  Cowell.  Nelson  Cowell  was 
descended  from  John  Baldwin,  who  was  killed  by  the  British  in  the 
invasion  of  New  Haven  in  1779.  On  the  maternal  side,  Cowell  was 
descended  from  Samuel  Hotchkiss,  who  was  in  New  Haven  as  early  as 
1641.  Captain  Gideon  Hotchkiss,  his  ancestor  in  the  fourth  generation, 
was  the  first  of  the  family  to  locate  in  Waterbury. 

George  H.  Cowell  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Conn.,  March 
25,  1840,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Wesleyan  Academy, 
Wilbraham,  Mass. 

He  entered  the  Senior  Class  at  Columbia  College  Law  School, 
was  graduated  in  1869,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Water- 


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bury.  When  he  had  been  out  of  the  law  school  only  one  year 
he  was  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Probate  Judge  of  \\ 'aterbury 
District,  but  was  defeated.  He  was  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  Con- 
necticut House  of  Representatives  in  1871,  Clerk  of  the  same 
in  18/J,  and  Clerk  of  the  Connecticut  Senate  in  1873.  In  1872 
and  1873  he  was  Deputy  Judge  of  the  Waterbury  City  Court.  In 
the  early  part  of  1874  he  spent  several  months  in  Florida  in 
order  to  improve  his  health,  which  had  failed  by  reason  of  over- 


work, and  while  there  he  wrote  a  series  of  letters  on  "The 
Condition  of  the  South,"  which  were  published  in  the  Waterbury 
American. 

In  1875-76  he  was  Chief  Clerk  in  the  Post  Office  Department 
at  Washington,  and  in  1876  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  law 
in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  He  was  made  Judge 
of  the  Waterbury  City  Court  in  July,  1877,  which  position  he 
held  four  years.  From  July  1,  1881,  to  July  1,  1883,  he  was 
Judge  of  the  Waterbury  District  Court,  and  from  January  1, 
1884,  to  January  1,  1888,  Alderman  and  Chairman  of  the  Law 
Committee  of  the  city  government.  July  1,  1887,  he  was  made 
Deputy  Judge  of  the  District  Court  and  served  for  six  years. 


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Cowell  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, sessions  of  1895  and  1897.  In  the  session  of  1895  he 
was  Chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee  and  Republican  leader 
of  the  House.  He  was  elected  Judge  of  the  City  Court  in  1895 
for  two  years,  and  in  1897  he  was  again  elected  Judge  of  the 
Waterbury  District  Court,  a  position  which  he  held  till  he 
reached  the  retiring  age.  In  addition  he  was  Clerk  of  the  City 
Board  of  Health,  Acting  School  Visitor,  Assistant  Town  Clerk, 
Registrar  of  Voters,  and  an  officer  in  the  Second  Regiment  of 
Infantry.  In  1889  he  secured  a  charter  for  the  West  Side 
Savings  Bank,  and  was  for  many  years  its  President. 

Cowell  had  the  fraternity  spirit  also.  He  joined  Nosahogan 
Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  1870,  and  in  two  years  passed  through 
all  its  chairs.  He  was  also  a  member  of  Continental  Lodge, 
F.  A.  M.,  Eureka  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Speedwell  Lodge,  K.  P., 
was  a  charter  member  and  first  regent  of  Mattatuck  Council, 
Royal  Arcanum,  chairman  of  committee  on  laws  in  the  Grand 
Council,  and  was  the  first  representative  to  the  Supreme  Council 
from  this  state.  He  was  also  a  charter  member  and  first  sachem 
of  Tunxis  Tribe,  I.  O.  R.  M.,  and  chairman  of  committee  on 
laws  in  the  Great  Council.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in 
originating  Patucko  Assembly,  Royal  Society  of  Good  Fellows, 
was  its  first  ruler,  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Assembly  and  on 
the  committee  on  laws. 

In  1891  he  was  Grand  Master  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  was  largely 
instrumental  in  establishing  the  Odd  Fellows'  Home  at  Fairview 
(Groton),  on  the  banks  of  the  Thames  River,  nearly  opposite 
New  London. 

In  addition  to  all  the  cares  mentioned  above,  he  was  largely 
interested  in  Waterbury  real  estate,  having  erected  over  fifty 
houses  in  the  city.  In  1898  he  purchased  Maplehurst  in  Worth- 
ington,  Mass.,  a  farm  of  nearly  eight  hundred  acres,  the  home- 
stead of  Colonel  Nahum  Eager  of  Revolutionary  fame,  which 
had  been  in  possession  of  the  Eager  family  from  1763  till  he 
secured  it  for  his  summer  vacations  and  the  home  of  his  old  age, 
when,  as  he  wrote,  there  would  be 

"No  weary  lawyers  with  endless  tongues, 

No  doubtful  balance  of  Rights  and  Wrongs, 
But  health  and  quiet  and  loving  words 
And  low  of  cattle  and  song  of  birds." 


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On  March  25,  1910,  he  retired  from  the  bench  of  the  District 
Court  of  Waterbury,  having  reached  the  age  of  seventy.  A 
banquet  was  given  in  his  honor  at  the  Elton  on  April  4,  by 
members  of  the  Waterbury  Bar. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Waterbury  on  August  10,  1910.  The 
following  is  from  the  Waterbury  Republican  of  August  13,  1910: 

"With  the  flag  he  loved  half-masted,  with  the  offices  of  the  city  and  of 
local  courts  closed,  and  business  largely  suspended  during  the  hours  of 
the  funeral,  Waterbury  paid  high  tribute  to  the  memory  of  one  of  its  old- 
est and  best  beloved  citizens,  Judge  George  Hubert  Cowell.  The  simplicity 
that  was  the  keynote  of  his  long  life  was  the  distinguishing  feature  of 
his  funeral;  yet  the  absence  of  pomp  and  gorgeous  ritual  made  the  uni- 
versality of  the  tribute  paid  more  impressive.  The  crowded  church  con- 
tained but  few  of  the  thousands  who  during  the  services  rested  for  a 
moment  in  factories,  in  places  of  business  and  in  hundreds  of  homes,  pay- 
ing silent  but  no  less  sincere  honor  to  the  memory  of  one  who  had  been 
the  friend,  counselor  and  benefactor  of  few  know  how  many  in  the  city 
where  he  had  lived  his  life." 

Rev.  Dr.  J.  G.  Davenport  said  in  his  funeral  discourse : 

"There  wras  a  certain  largeness  in  his  nature  that  we  all  respected  and 
admired.  His  imposing  physical  proportions  suggested  largeness  of  brain 
and  largeness  of  heart.  Intellectually  he  was  broad,  'full  of  wise  saws  and 
modern  instances,'  possessed  of  a  wealth  of  information  and  anecdote, 
quick  to  discern  the  central  truth,  and  able  generously  to  illustrate  its 
bearing;  a  man  who  drew  his  generalizations  from  abundant  facts,  and 
who,  having  arrived  at  satisfactory  conclusions,  held  to  them  with  strong, 
although  never  offensive  tenacity.  He  was  always  able  to  give  a  reason 
for  the  faith  he  cherished  and  the  hope  that  was  in  him." 

He  was  married  November  II,  1878,  to  Alice  Sewell  Barton, 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  had  three  children :  Olga,  born  Sep- 
tember 28,  1883,  died  in  October  of  the  same  year;  Hubert 
Barton,  born  December  9,  1889,  died  August  3,  1892 ;  Jeanette 
Elizabeth,  born  January  3,  1892. 


Frank  Cramer 

Son  of  Eliphalet  and  Electa  (Fay)  Cramer,  and  brother  of  Edward 
Cramer  (Yale  College  1871).  His  father  was  born  in  1813  in  Waterford, 
Saratoga  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  1872.  He  was  son  of  John  Cramer, 
Member  of  Congress  from  the  State  of  New  York.  Electa  Fay.  his 
mother,  was  born  near  Utica,   N.   Y.,   in   1818,   and  died  in   1910,   in  her 


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ninety-second  year.     She   was   daughter   of    Dr.   Jonas   Fay,   at   one  time 
Surgeon  in  the  United  States  Navy. 

Frank  Cramer  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wise.,  August  7,  1847, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and 
Commercial  Institute  in  New  Haven. 

After  graduating,  he  spent  one  year  in  Europe  and  then 
returned  to  Milwaukee  and  was  with  F.  H.  McClure  &  Company, 
bankers,  for  several  years.  In  1882  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and, 
in  company  with  a  younger  brother,  Eliphalet  W.  Cramer,  con- 


ducted a  banking  and  brokerage  business  under  the  name  of 
Cramer  &  Company.  His  brother  retired  from  the  firm  in 
1887,  and  he  continued  the  business  under  the  same  firm  name 
for  a  time,  but  has  not  been  in  active  business  for  some  years. 
His  home  is  in  Chicago,  but  he  spends  considerable  time  in 
foreign  travel. 

In  May,  1913,  Cramer  wrote  to  the  Secretary:  "With  the 
exception  of  my  mother's  death  three  years  ago,  there  have  been 
few  important  changes  in  my  life  since  last  report.  I  am  still 
unmarried,  I  have  many  devoted  friends,  good  health,  and  much 
to  be  thankful  for." 


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Silas  Augustus  Davenport 


Son  of  Silas  and  Betsy  Ann  (St.  John)  Davenport.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Matthias  St.  John  of  New  Canaan,  Conn. 

Silas  A.  Davenport  was  born  June  27,  1846,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
His  parents  removed  to  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  in  1854,  and  he  studied 
in  preparation  for  college  under  Mr.  John  Young  of  that  city. 
In  1861  he  entered  the  employ  of  John  M.  Davies  &  Company 
of  New  York  City,  with  whom  he  remained  two  years,  after 
which  he  completed  his  preparation  for  Yale  under  Rev.  J.  F. 
Pingry,  D.D.,  of  Elizabeth. 

In  college  he  was  awarded  prizes  in  Sophomore  and  Senior 
Composition,  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition  and 
Commencement,  was  President  of  Brothers,  won  first  prize 
in  Debate  in  Sophomore,  Junior  and  Senior  years,  and  was 
graduated  with  a  Philosophical  standing. 

He  studied  theology  at  Princeton  two  years,  from  1868  to 
1870,  and  at  Union  Seminary  one  year,  graduating  at  the  latter 
place  in  1871.  He  also  completed  a  medical  course  at  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia  University,  and  received 


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the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1873.  He  was  ordained  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  went  out,  by  appointment  of 
the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  to  labor  as  a 
medical  missionary  at  Ningpo,  China,  leaving  home  December  3, 
1873.  In  the  summer  of  1874,  he  was  suddenly  called  home  by 
sickness  and  death  in  his  father's  family. 

January  1,  1875,  he  received  a  call  to  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Port  Carbon,  Pa.,  and  preached  there  till  July,  1877.  He  was 
pastor  in  Landisburg,  Perry  Co.,  Pa.,  from  January,  1878,  till 
April,  1880,  when  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  Middle 
Tuscarora  Presbyterian  Church,  Beale,  Pa.  These  country 
charges  were  full  of  labor  of  a  pastoral  character,  requiring 
very  much  time  for  the  traveling  necessary  in  order  to  do  all 
the  work.  In  1883  he  was  called  to  the  Aisquith  Street  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  began  his  labors  there 
October  1. 

By  his  physician's  advice,  he  resigned  his  pastorate  and  left 
Baltimore  toward  the  close  of  the  year  1888,  and  went  with  his 
family  to  Sorrento,  San  Diego  County,  Cal.,  where  he  lived 
upon  a  small  ranch,  trying  to  get  rest  by  out-of-door  employ- 
ment. He  became  a  farmer  of  the  Cincinnatus  type,  holding  the 
plow,  and  wielding  the  spade  and  the  hoe,  ready  to  be  called 
from  his  farm  to  serve  the  public  in  whatever  way  he  might  be 
useful. 

In  February,  1890,  he  returned  to  the  East,  restored  in  body 
and  in  mind,  and  immediately  received  a  call  to  his  old  charge 
in  Juniata  Co.,  Pa.,  Middle  Tuscarora  Presbyterian  Church  in 
union  with  Lower  Tuscarora  Presbyterian  Church.  He  resigned 
his  pastorate  at  Tuscarora  in  October,  1898,  and  in  1901  pur- 
chased a  productive  farm  at  Spruce  Hill,  Pa.,  where  his  main 
occupation  was  the  cultivation  of  the  soil  and  the  handling  of 
the  stock.  He  continued  to  reside  on  this  farm  till  November 
20,  191 1.  Since  that  date  he  has  lived  with  his  son,  Oliver 
Sidney,  at  McMechen,  West  Virginia.  He  has  recently  pur- 
chased a  small  piece  of  ground  in  Washington  Co.,  Alabama, 
and  expects  to  spend  his  winters  there  later. 

He  has  published  various  newspaper  articles  in  the  Port  Royal 
Times,  the  Philadelphia  Presbyterian  and  the  Baltimore  Presby- 
terian Observer.  A  paper  on  "Presbyterian  Church  Extension 
in   Cities"    was   read   before   the    Presbyterian   Association   of 


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Baltimore,  and  was  printed  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Association 
for  the  year  ending  December  31,  1886.  He  was  President  of 
the  Harvest  Home  Association  for  two  years,  Moderator  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Baltimore  one  term,  and  also  of  the  Presbytery 
of  Huntingdon. 

August  28,  1878,  he  was  married  to  Martha  Ellen  Mateer, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Isabel  Mateer  of  St.  Clair, 
Schuylkill  Co.,  Pa.,  and  has  had  five  children:  Mary  Isabel, 
born  July  1,  1879,  at  Landisburg;  Jesse  St.  John,  born  February 
17,  1881,  at  Bealtown;  Oliver  Sidney,  born  February  20,  1884; 
Ellen  Augusta,  born  January  21,  1886;  Walter  W.,  born  March 
28,  1888;  the  last  three  in  Baltimore.  His  wife  died  January  13, 
1892,  after  two  weeks'  illness  from  la  grippe,  complicated  with 
pneumonia. 

Mary  Isabel  was  graduated  from  Wilson  College,  Chambers- 
burg,  Pa.,  in  June,  1898,  and  was  married  February  13,  1909, 
to  Samuel  Harries  Daddow  of  St.  Clair,  Schuylkill  County,  Pa. 
She  died  at  her  home  in  Reading,  Pa.,  January  1,  1910,  at  the 
age  of  thirty  years  and  six  months. 

Jesse  St.  John  is  a  Sergeant  in  the  Hospital  Corps  of  the 
United  States  Army.  He  has  been  in  the  Army  for  about  four- 
teen years,  in  the  Infantry,  and  later  in  the  Hospital  Corps.  He 
was  in  the  Philippines  till  October  14,  1913,  when  he  returned 
to  this  part  of  the  United  States  and  is  now  on  duty  at  Fort 
Bayard,  New  Mexico.  Fort  Bayard  is  a  Government  Tuber- 
culosis Sanitarium  for  officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  United 
States  Army.  Jesse  is  in  the  laboratory  as  a  microscopic  assist- 
ant to  the  surgeons.  In  Manila  he  made  a  study  of  typhoid  and 
Asiatic  cholera  germs,  as  well  as  of  tuberculosis. 

Oliver  Sidney  resides  in  McMechen,  West  Virginia,  and  is 
conductor  on  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad  between  Wheeling 
and  Grafton. 

Ellen  Augusta  is  in  the  Lucy  Webb  Training  School  for 
Deaconesses,  Washington,  D.  C,  preparing  for  work  in  the  West 
Virginia  Methodist  Episcopal  Conference. 

Walter  W.  at  present  is  in  Des  Lacs,  North  Dakota,  employed 
in  mining  and  agricultural  work.  His  varied  training  in  coal 
mining,  locomotive  repair  work,  and  agriculture  has  fitted  him 
for  some  line  of  usefulness  when  he  shall  have  decided  for 
himself  on  his  future  occupation. 


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*John  Kinne  Hyde  DeForest 

Son  of  Rev.  William  A.  Hyde  (Amherst  College  1829)  and  of  Martha 
(Sackett)  Hyde,  and  brother  of  Joel  W.  Hyde  (M.D.  Yale  1861).  His 
father  was  a  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  of  John  Hyde  of  Norwich, 
Conn.,  who  was  born  in  1667  and  died  in  1727.  This  John  was  the  father 
of  John,  born  1698,  whose  son  Asa,  born  1741,  was  the  father  of  Joel 
born  1764,  who  was  the  father  of  Rev.  William  A.  Hyde,  born  1805. 

John  H.  DeForest  was  born  June  25,  1844,  in  Westbrook,  Conn., 
where  his  father  was  then  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  In 
1862-63  he  served  in  the  army,  with  the  Twenty-eighth  Con- 
necticut Volunteers,  in  Florida.  He  was  a  member  of  '67  about 
two  months,  and  joined  '68  in  January,  1865.  He  entered  Yale 
as  John  Kinne  Hyde.  Receiving  the  DeForest  Scholarship,  he 
added  DeForest  to  his  name,  as  was  then  required  of  the  recipi- 
ents of  this  scholarship  who  were  not  members  of  the  DeForest 
family.  He  graduated  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship, 
and  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition.  He  gave  con- 
siderable attention  to  boating,  and  rowed  in  the  Varuna  shell  and 
on  his  class  crew  in  Senior  year. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  I  I  I 

He  was  graduated  at  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary  in  1871, 
and  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Mount  Carmel,  Conn.,  May  24  of  the  same  year.  June 
5,  1 871,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven  to  Miss  S.  C.  Conklin,  who 
died  March  15,  1872,  after  a  painful  illness.  DeForest  remained 
at  Mount  Carmel  for  more  than  three  years,  and  developed  a  first- 
class  working  church.  In  July,  1874,  he  resigned  to  enter  the 
service  of  the  American  Board  in  Japan,  much  to  the  regret  of  his 
people,  by  whom  he  was  greatly  beloved. 

September  23,  1874,  he  was  again  married,  to  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Starr,  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  and  sailed  with  his  wife  from  San 
Francisco  to  join  the  Japan  mission,  October  31  of  the  same  year, 
only  five  years  after  the  establishment  of  the  mission.  In  com- 
pany with  him  were  Dr.  A.  H.  Adams  (Yale  College  1867)  and 
Rev.  Joseph  Neesima,  a  native  of  Japan.  After  learning  the 
Japanese  language,  he  engaged  in  evangelistic  work  in  Osaka  and 
was  identified  with  the  early  history  of  four  of  the  Congrega- 
tional churches  in  that  city.  While  on  duty  there,  he  visited  most 
of  the  important  cities  in  central  Japan,  addressing  large  audiences 
in  the  theatres  (the  only  public  halls).  In  1882  his  health  failed, 
and  he  came  home  for  rest  and  treatment,  returning  somewhat 
improved  in  1884.  In  1886  he  removed  to  Sendai,  to  assist  in 
establishing  a  school  with  the  plan  of  making  it  into  a  Christian 
college  like  the  New  England  colleges.  This  school  was  the  first 
in  the  Empire  to  be  established  by  prominent  Japanese  for  the 
express  purpose  of  putting  it  under  Christian  influences.  It  had 
the  support  of  many  wealthy  and  influential  men,  and  was  well 
patronized,  but  after  an  existence  of  five  years  it  was  discontinued. 
DeForest  remained  till  his  death  at  Sendai,  the  commercial  and 
educational  center  of  the  northern  half  of  the  Empire.  During 
this  period  of  twenty-five  years  he  was  engaged  in  mission  work, 
but  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  writing  for  the  press,  for  when 
he  began  his  work  in  Japan  there  was  no  Christian  literature  in 
the  Japanese  language. 

When  he  went  to  Japan  in  1874  he  found  the  feeling  anti- 
foreign  and  anti-Christian,  but  by  his  wisdom  and  tact,  and  his 
kind  and  sympathetic  interest  in  the  Japanese  people,  he  won  his 
way  to  the  heart  of  the  nation.  He  studied  the  Japanese  language 
and  literature,  its  history,  its  moral  and  social  standards.  He 
became  a  fluent  and  eloquent  speaker  in  the  Japanese  language, 


112  THE    CLASS    OF    I 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

and  as  he  always  had  something-  to  say  that  was  worth  hearing,  he 
was  much  in  demand  for  public  lectures  and  addresses.  He  trav- 
eled extensively  and  spoke  to  the  people  wherever  he  found  them, 
and  came  to  be  known  and  respected  throughout  the  Empire. 
During  the  later  years  of  his  life  he  gave  much  of  his  time  and 
strength  to  an  interpretation  of  Japan  to  the  West.  He  was  so 
loyal  to  Japan,  and  so  thoroughly  identified  himself  with  the 
interests  of  its  people,  that  they  came  to  regard  him  as  a  Japanese 
rather  than  an  American. 

During  his  thirty-seven  years  in  Japan,  he  visited  America  five 
times.  These  furloughs  were  largely  occupied  by  public  addresses, 
devoted  mainly  to  an  interpretation  of  Japan  to  America.  In 
1907  he  came  by  way  of  China  and  Europe.  During  his  stay  in 
the  States  (that  is,  between  May  27,  1907,  and  September  22, 
1908)  he  delivered  more  than  one  hundred  addresses  on  various 
subjects  of  world-wide  interest,  denounced  the  false  rumors  about 
the  warlike  intentions  of  Japan,  and  did  much  by  his  speeches  and 
writings  to  enlighten  the  American  people  as  to  Japan's  real  policy 
and  spirit.  His  open  letter  to  Captain  Hobson  was  circulated 
everywhere,  and  did  much  to  counteract  the  anti-Japanese  agita- 
tion. In  May  he  spoke  at  the  meeting-  of  the  American  Peace 
Society  in  Boston,  and  was  made  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  of 
the  organization.  While  on  this  furlough  and  during  the  next 
few  years  there  appeared  from  his  pen  the  following  articles  of 
international  interest : 

"Open  Letter  to  Captain  Hobson."  "Conditions  of  Peace  betweeen  the 
East  and  the  West."  "Is  Japan  a  Menace  to  the  United  States?" 
Published  by  the  Peace  Society. 

"American  Ignorance  of  Oriental  Languages."  "Exterritoriality  in 
China."     Published  by  the  Association  for  International  Conciliation. 

"Moral  Greatness  of  the  Japanese  People."  "Moral  Purpose  of  Japan 
in  Corea."  "The  Japanese  Government  and  Missionaries  in  Chosen." 
Published  in  the  Independent. 

On  his  return  to  Sendai  he  was  welcomed  by  a  large  public 
meeting-  of  citizens.  After  this  he  was  in  greater  demand  than 
ever  as  a  public  lecturer. 

In  1909  he  visited  China  and  spent  some  weeks  at  Killing,  and 
at  the  request  of  a  representative  committee  from  the  hundreds 
of  missionaries  gathered  there  he  delivered  an  address  on  "The 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES  113 

Bearing  of  Historical  Criticism  on  Missions."  In  1905  he  went 
to  Manchuria,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  with  letters  from  the  Premier  to  the  nine  leading 
Japanese  generals.  He  was  treated  as  a  guest  of  the  Japanese 
army  and  shown  every  courtesy,  and  was  the  first  foreigner 
allowed  to  enter  the  city  of  Mukden  after  its  capture.  While  in 
Manchuria  he  addressed  the  soldiers  often,  and  the  following 
pamphlets  wore  widely  disseminated  among  them: 

•The  American  Spirit."  "Religion  and  War."  "Why  America  Sym- 
pathizes with  Japan." 

In  the  fall  of  1905  came  the  famine  in  the  Northeast,  and 
DeForest  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Famine  Relief  Com- 
mittee of  the  foreign  residents  there.  Very  much  of  the  success 
of  this  Committee  was  due  to  his  efforts.  Ten  members  of  '68 
made  a  generous  contribution  to  this  work,  for  which  DeForest 
was  exceedingly  grateful.  He  received  several  silver  cups  from 
the  government  for  famine  work;  and,  doubtless  in  recognition 
of  his  services  by  voice  and  pen  in  dispelling  anti-Japanese 
thoughts  and  feelings  in  America,  although  officially  because  of 
his  labors  for  the  famine  sufferers  and  for  the  soldiers  on  the 
battle-fields  of  Manchuria,  the  Emperor  in  November,  1908, 
decorated  him  with  the  fourth  grade  of  the  Order  of  the  Rising 
Sun. 

In  October,  1910,  he  went  with  Mrs.  DeForest  to  Chosen,  where 
he  spent  a  busy  month  under  the  auspices  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
traveling  the  length  of  the  peninsula.  He  spoke  in  various  places, 
and  interviewed  Japanese  military  officers,  school  principals, 
Americans,  and  a  few  Coreans,  in  order  to  get  at  the  true  state 
of  affairs.  Impressions  of  his  stay  in  Chosen  were  published  in 
the  Independent  and  in  the  Missionary  Herald. 

For  nearly  twenty-five  years  he  published  a  yearly  review  of  the 
principal  events  in  Japan  in  one  of  the  January  numbers  of  the 
New  York  Independent,  and  contributed  to  this  paper  many  other 
articles  on  timely  and  interesting  subjects.  He  acted  as  special 
correspondent  for  this  magazine  during  the  Russo-Japanese  War. 

His  best  known  book  in  English  is  ''Sunrise  in  the  Sunrise 
Kingdom."  The  following  were  issued  by  him  before  his  visit  to 
America  in  1907-08: 


114  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Five  books  in  the  Japanese  language : 

"Geography  of  the  Bible." 

"Commentary  on  First  Thessalonians." 

"Unique  Character  of  Jesus. 

"The  Greatest  Fact  in  History — the  Resurrection. 

"Addresses  to  Students." 


Pamphlet  and  magazine  articles  in  the  Japanese  language : 

A  set  of  tracts  on  the  Ten  Commandments  under  the  following  titles : 
"The  Foundation  of  Religion."  "The  Evils  of  Worshiping  Dried  Wood." 
"The  Sabbath."  "The  Great  Learning  of  Parents  and  Children." 
"Revenge,  Suicide,  etc."  "The  Great  Learning  of  Husband  and  Wife." 
"Medicine  for  Thieves."  "Medicine  for  Liars."  "Funeral  of  the  Seven 
Gods  of  Luck." 

"Questions  and  Answers  on  Isaiah  and  Jeremiah."  "How  to  Find  One's 
Life  Work."  "A  Temperance  Sermon."  "Translation  of  'The  Teaching 
of  the  Twelve  Apostles.'  "  "Catholicism,  Greek  Religion  and  Protestant- 
ism." "Resurrrection  of  Christ  and  the  Five  Senses."  "Morality  and 
Religion."  "The  Influence  of  Pantheism."  "The  Influence  of  Belief  in 
the  Creator."  "The  Historic  Development  of  Monotheism."  "Inspira- 
tion." "Mixed  Residence,  or  Unrestricted  Admission  of  Foreigners  to 
Japan."    "The  Signs  of  the  Times."     "The  Greatest  Learning." 

The  following,  printed  in  English : 

Eleven  booklets  published  by  the  American  Board :  "A  Province  without 
a  Missionary."  "Four  Days  of  Joy  in  Joshu."  "History  of  a  Little 
Church."  "Welcome  to  a  Returned  Missionary."  "Letters  to  Yale 
Seminary."  "Acts  of  Minor  Apostles."  "A  Jinrikisha  Ride  in  Tokyo." 
"The  Kingdom  Coming  in  Japan."  "Across  the  Aizu  Valley."  "A  Basket 
of  Chips"  (Series  1  and  2).     "One  Piece  of  a  Story." 

"Japanese  Verbs  of  Saying."  "Education  in  Japan."  "The  Political 
Situation  in  Japan  and  its  Relation  to  Mission  Work."  (This  article  was 
translated  into  the  Jiji  newspaper  of  Tokyo,  and  republished  by  other 
newspapers.)  "The  Basis  of  Society."  "The  Machinery  of  Missions." 
"Annual  Reviews  of  Events  in  Japan."  "Pantheism  as  it  exists  in  the 
East."  "Japan's  Codes."  "Congregationalism  in  Japan."  "On  the  Word, 
Heathen."  "On  the  Word,  Natives."  "Supplementary  Methods  of  Mis- 
sionary Work  in  Japan"  (3  numbers).  "Popular  Aspects  of  Buddhism." 
"Ema"  (Japanese  votive  pictures).  "Why  Nikko  is  Beautiful."  "Union 
Work  in  Japan."  "Confucian  Ethics  as  seen  from  Japan."  "Japanese 
Characteristics."  "Moral  Preparation  for  Christianity  in  Japan."  "The 
Great  Hokkaido."  "Broad  Culture  demanded  of  Missionaries."  "False 
Religions  so  called."  "Brief  History  of  the  American  Board  Mission  in 
Japan." 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  115 

DeForest  was  member  and  Vice-President  of  the  American 
Peace  Society,  member  of  the  Japan  Peace  Society,  and  of  the 
American  Peace  Society  of  Japan,  and  of  the  National  Red  Cross 
Society  of  Japan ;  also  member  of  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  Sendai  Educational  Asso- 
ciation, of  the  Publishing-  and  Evangelistic  Committees  of  the 
A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  in  Japan,  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Tokwa 
School,  and  in  the  early  years  member  of  the  Osaka  Municipal 
Council  and  Leading  Hose  on  the  Fire  Brigade. 

In  1889  Yale  University  honored  him  with  the  degree  of  D.D. 

He  has  had  five  children:  Sarah  Lydia,  born  at  Mino,  Japan, 
July  9,  1877 ;  Charlotte  Burgis,  born  February  23,  1879,  at  Osaka  ; 
Elizabeth  Lay,  born  April  29,  1881,  at  Osaka,  died  at  Guilford, 
Conn.,  September  11,  1882;  John  Starr,  born  at  North  Haven, 
November  26,  1882;  Louise  Flyde,  born  at  Osaka,  February  26, 
1885. 

Sarah  L.  was  graduated  from  Smith  in  1901,  was  married  June 
*3>  I9°5>  to  William  B.  Pettus,  Student  Secretary  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  in  China,  and  has  two  sons,  John 
DeForest,  born  May  1,  1909,  and  William  Winston,  born  February 
25,  1912. 

Charlotte  B.  was  graduated  from  Smith  in  1901,  and  is  a  teacher 
in  Kobe  Girls'  College.  She  has  written  an  interesting  life  of  her 
father,  entitled  "The  Evolution  of  a  Missionary — John  Hyde 
DeForest,"    published  by  the  Revell  Company. 

John  S.  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Science  from  Amherst 
in  1906,  and  is  connected  with  the  Weather  Bureau  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  was  married,  February  13,  191 1,  to  Camille  Estelle 
Pinder  of  Key  West,  Florida. 

Louise  H.  was  graduated  from  Smith  in  1907,  and  taught  music 
two  years  in  the  Doshisha  Girls'  School,  Kyoto,  Japan.  She  was 
married,  December  3,  191 3,  in  Kobe,  to  Robert  Kelsey  Veryard, 
an  English  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary  in  work  for  Chinese  students 
in  Tokyo. 

Deforest  was  taken  ill  December  21,  1910,  with  hardening  of  the 
arteries.  He  seemed  to  improve  till  April  14.  Two  weeks  later 
he  was  taken  to  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Tokyo.  His  right  arm  and 
leg  were  soon  paralyzed.  Pneumonia  set  in  and  he  died  May  8. 
The  funeral  was  in  the  largest  church  in  Sendai,  and  was  attended 
by  the  whole  of  the  foreign  community  of  Sendai  and  by  all  the 


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leading  local  Japanese  officials  and  residents.     Interment  was  in 
the  Kitayama  Cemetery,  near  Sendai. 


The  Japanese  inscription  reads : 

FOURTH    ORDER   OF    MERIT 

AMERICAN   DOCTOR   OF   DIVINITY 

DE  FOREST  HIS    GRAVE 


The  Japan  Evangelist  of  June,  191 1,  thus  characterized  him: 

"In  disposition  Dr.  DeForest  was  wide  awake  and  active.  He  read, 
observed,  and  thought  much.  His  fine  library  was  an  indication  of  what 
he  was  and  did.  He  made  it  a  special  point  to  keep  in  living  touch  with 
current  events, — religious,  educational,  social,  and  political.  He  never 
allowed  himself  to  get  into  ruts  or  grow  stale.  His  ideas  were  fresh  and 
stimulating.  He  kept  moving.  He  was  the  embodiment  of  abounding  life 
and  hopefulness." 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  117 

Dr.  Lyman  Abbott  in  the  Outlook  of  May  27,  191 1,  said  of 

him : 

"He  served  in  a  very  real  sense  as  an  ambassador.  He  officially  repre- 
sented no  government,  but  he  did  very  truly  act  as  a  representative  of 
American  civilization  to  the  civilization  of  Japan.  Perhaps  some  idea 
of  what  it  means  to  a  man  like  Dr.  DeForest  to  be  a  missionary  may  be 
gained  from  the  statement  of  what  happened  to  him  on  his  return  to 
Japan  from  a  visit  to  the  United  States.  When  he  arrived  at  Sendai, 
where  his  home  was,  he  was  met  by  a  great  crowd  of  the  Japanese  people. 
In  the  throng  were  the  Governor  of  the  province  and  the  Mayor  of  the 
city.  In  that  throng,  too,  were  men  and  women  of  all  classes,  from 
jinrikisha  men  to  students.  A  Japanese  paper,  in  expressing  the  value 
of  Dr.  DeForest's  services,  likened  his  work  in  cementing  the  friendship 
of  Japan  and  the  United  States  to  the  visit  of  Admiral  Sperry's  sixteen 
battle  ships,  and  called  Dr.  DeForest  himself  'our  new  national  benefac- 
tor.' Dr.  DeForest  was  not  only  a  missionary  from  the  United  States 
to  Japan,  but  also  from  Japan  to  the  United  States.  Through  his  public 
utterances  and  through  his  writings  (for  instance,  in  his  readable  little 
book,  'Sunrise  in  the  Sunrise  Kingdom')  he  did  much  to  acquaint 
Americans  with  the  spirit  of  the  Japanese.  Broad  in  his  human  sym- 
pathies, he  was  broad  too  in  his  religious  thinking.  How  highly  his 
intellectual  powers  were  esteemed  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  on  one 
occasion,  when  about  a  thousand  missionaries  from  China,  Japan  and 
Corea  were  gathered  at  Kuling  in  China,  it  was  Dr.  DeForest  who  was 
chosen  by  them  to  give  a  paper  on  'The  Present  Status  of  Theological 
Thought.'  " 

Rev.  Dr.  T.  P.  Prudden  (Yale  College  1869),  in  the  Congrega- 
tionalist  of  May  20,  191 1,  paid  this  tribute  to  his  college  friend: 

"For  more  than  forty  years  I  have  known  Dr.  DeForest  intimately, 
and  the  charm  of  his  personality,  the  beauty  and  breadth  of  his  spirit, 
and  his  exceeding  fitness  for  his  work  have  seemed  constantly  increasing. 
Doubtless  his  training  in  a  country  parsonage,  his  army  experiences,  seven 
years  at  Yale,  and  his  pastorate  of  three  years  at  Mt.  Carmel,  Conn., 
developed  his  strong  character.  But  he  found  himself  when,  amid  the 
brightest  professional  prospects,  he  decided  to  go  to  what  was  then  called 
'barbarous'  Japan,  where  he  not  only  saw  the  critical  needs,  but  foresaw 
much  which  has  since  come  to  pass. 

"In  the  spirit  of  a  knightly  soldier  he  volunteered,  and  with  his  devoted 
wife  has  worked,  fascinated  by  hard  tasks  but  never  daunted;  courageous 
though  his  knees  shook ;  persistent  whatever  his  weariness ;  looking  for 
and  grasping  each  opportunity;  responding  to  the  least  call  for  help; 
keeping  his  sword  sharp  and  ready;  and  never  sparing  himself,  but 
experiencing  always  the  intense  joy  of  those  who  love  the  battle  and  who 
unselfishly  serve. 


Il8  THE    CLASS    OF    l868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

"Years  of  study  on  the  language  were  a  burden,  but  his  indomitable 
pluck  made  him  a  fluent  orator,  speaking  by  invitation  to  large  audiences 
in  theatres  through  the  land,  and  the  widely-known  representative  of 
Christian  and  American  civilization  to  a  vast  multitude.  His  long  winter 
tours,  living  in  Japanese  hotels,  with  no  fire  save  a  brazier  of  coals,  and 
enduring  Japanese  beds  and  food,  required  a  sacrifice  well-nigh  heroic, 
but  that  produced  a  friendliness  and  open-mindedness  towards  Christianity 
and  America  not  easily  estimated. 

"His  energy  and  capacity  for  work  were  boundless ;  he  longed  to  do 
things;  he  loved  the  people;  he  thought  his  strength  without  limit; 
his  manhood  appealed  to  men ;  his  personality  created  friendships ;  his 
smile  and  wit  disarmed  hostility ;  men  felt  his  warm-heartedness ;  he 
drew  them  to  his  cause  because  he  drew  them  to  himself.  In  Sendai  the 
officials  and  military  officers  and  even  Buddhist  priests  were  his  friends 
and  visitors,  and  their  welcome  when  he  last  returned  from  America  was 
a  public  ovation.  Young  men  sought  his  counsel.  He  was  a  man  of 
affairs,  but  with  the  vision  of  Christ  always  with  him.  He  looked  and 
planned  far  ahead  for  the  Kingdom  of  God,  but  with  the  eye  of  a  states- 
man. Because  of  his  recognized  character  and  loyalty  to  Japan,  he  was 
made  the  guest  of  the  army  in  Manchuria  and  granted  rare  privileges. 

"Dr.  DeForest  inspired  trust;  he  could  give  comfort  to  the  troubled  and 
put  himself  in  another's  place.  He  looked  for  the  good  in  men  and  saw 
the  good  in  the  Japanese  religions.  Religious  convictions  tested  by 
experience  and  faith  in  the  Infinite  Love  were  at  the  basis  of  his  character. 

"He  was  an  all-round  man,  who  used  each  talent  to  the  utmost.  To 
me  he  seemed  an  ideal  missionary,  a  typical  Christian  whose  light  has  so 
shined  that  very  many  have  seen  the  glory  of  God ;  a  valiant  knight 
without  fear  and  without  reproach,  a  soldier  who  has  fought  a  good 
fight,  and  not  least  a  dear  and  tested  friend,  loved  by  all  who  have 
known  him,  but  knit  to  a  few  by  ties  which  neither  distance  nor  time 
have  weakened." 


Charles  A.  de  Kay 

Fourth  son  and  seventh  child  of  Commodore  George  Coleman  and 
Janet  Halleck  (Drake)  de  Kay,  both  of  New  YTork  City.  His  mother  was 
the  only  child  of  the  poet  Joseph  Rodman  Drake,  author  of  "The 
American  Flag,"   "The  Culprit  Fay,"    and  other  well-known  poems. 

Charles  A.  de  Kay  was  born  July  25,  1848,  in  the  old  Van  Ness 
or  "haunted"  house  at  Washington,  D.  C,  which  his  father 
had  leased.  After  the  death  of  his  father  a  few  months  later  the 
family  returned  to  Xew  York  and  settled  at  Oyster  Bay,  L.  I. 
De  Kay  spent  four  years  in  boyhood  in  Dresden,  Saxony,  and 
completed  his  preparation  for  Y^ale  at  General  Russell's  Military 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES 


II9 


School  in  New  Haven.  In  college  he  gave  special  attention  to 
athletics  and  gymnastics.  He  was  Captain  of  one  of  the  Gym- 
nastic Classes,  and  rowed  in  the  Glyuna  shell  and  on  his  class 
crew  in  Senior  year. 

After  leaving  college  he  lived  on  Staten  Island  and  was  for  a 
short  time  engaged  in  business  in  New  York  City.  Having  an 
inherited  fondness  for  writing  and  books,  he  soon  renounced  mer- 
cantile pursuits  and  returned  to  his  studies.     His  life  has  been 


devoted  to  literature  and  art.  He  has  been  a  constant  contributor 
to  periodical  literature,  and  from  1876  to  1906  was  on  the  staff 
of  the  New  York  Times  as  editorial  writer,  literary  critic  and  art 
critic.  After  1907  he  was  for  a  time  connected  with  the  New 
York  Evening  Post.  From  1894  to  1897  ne  was  United  States 
Consul  General  at  Berlin.     His  published  works  include : 

"The  Bohemian,"  a  tragedy  of  modern  life.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 
1878. 

"Hesperus,  and  Other  Poems."     Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     1880. 

"Vision  of   Nimrod,"    an  oriental  romance.     D.  Appleton  &  Co.     1881. 

"Vision  of  Esther,"  a  sequel  to  the  "Vision  of  Ximrod."  D.  Appleton 
&  Co.     1882. 


120  THE    CLASS    OF    l868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

"Love  Poems  of  Louis  Barnaval."     D.  Appleton  &  Co.     1883. 

"Manmat'ha,"  in  "Stories  by  American  Authors,"  Vol.  X.  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons.     1884. 

"The  Life  and  Works  of  Antoine  Louis  Barye,  Sculptor."  New  York. 
1889. 

"The  Family  Life  of  Heinrich  Heine,"  from  the  German.  Cassells. 
1892. 

"Bird  Gods,"  a  study  of  myths  and  religions  in  ancient  Europe.  A.  S. 
Barnes  &  Co.,  1898. 

Also,  "Essays  on  Ancient  Ireland,"  in  the  Century  Magazine; 
"Wonders  of  the  Alphabet,"   in  St.  Nicholas. 

"Life  and  Works  of  Louis  Comfort  Tiffany."     Privately  printed. 

De  Kay  is  founder  of  the  Fencers  Club,  New  York,  1880; 
founder  of  the  Authors  Club,  New  York,  1882;  also  of  the 
National  Sculpture  Society,  New  York,  1892,  as  well  as  of  Der 
Berliner  Fecht  Klub,  Berlin,  1896;  likewise  of  the  National  Arts 
Club,  New  York,  1899,  of  the  Circle  of  Friends  of  the  Medallion, 
1909,  and  of  the  American  Institute  of  the  Graphic  Arts,  New 
York,  1914. 

On  June  4,  1888,  he  was  married  to  Edwalyn  Coffey,  daughter 
of  Major  Edward  Lees  Coffey,  British  Army  of  India,  and  of 
Lucy  Edwalyn  Haxall  of  Richmond,  Ya.  His  children  are: 
Phyllis  Dunboyne  de  Kay,  born  June  6,  1889;  Helena  van  Brugh 
de  Kay,  born  January  6,  1891 ;  Katharine  Finola  de  Kay,  born 
August  20,  1893;  Adrian  Barton  Drake  de  Kay,  born  December 
7,  1894;  Marion  Eckford  de  Kay,  born  May  23,  1896;  Rodman 
Drake  de  Kay,  born  February  1,  1898;  Ormonde  Kay  de  Kay, 
born  October  10,  1900;  and  Sylvia  Octavia  de  Kay,  born 
December  31,  1902. 

Phyllis  Dunboyne,  a  graduate  of  the  School  of  Applied  Design 
for  Women,  New  York  City,  has  been  studying  painting  in 
Florence,  Italy.  Her  pictures  have  been  exhibited  in  New  York 
and  Florence. 

Helena  van  Brugh,  a  graduate  of  the  Institute  of  Music,  New 
York  City,  went  on  the  stage  with  Mrs.  Fiske,  and  has  been 
leading  lady  in  Broadhurst's  play,    "Bought  and  Paid  For." 

Marion  Eckford  has  a  position  on  the  staff  of  St.  ATicJw!as. 

Rodman  Drake  is  preparing  for  Annapolis. 

Katharine  Finola,  a  graduate  of  the  School  of  Applied  Design 
for  Women,  New  York  City,  has  been  cartoonist  for  the  Herter 
Looms,  New  York  City. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  121 

Mrs.  de  Kay  has  been  prominent  on  the  amateur  stage,  and  has 
written  and  acted  in  several  very  charming  short  plays  given  for 
various  charities.  She  also  has  gone  on  the  professional  stage 
and  has  been  playing  during  the  past  season  (1913)  in  Edward 
Sheldon's   "Romance"   at  the  Maxine  Elliott  theatre. 


William  Palmer  Dixon 


Son  of  Courtlandt  P.  and  Hannah  E.  (Williams)  Dixon,  who  were  mar- 
ried in  Stonington,  Conn.,  September  9,  1841.  His  father,  Courtlandt 
Palmer  Dixon,  was  born  in  Westerly,  R.  I.,  June  23,  1817,  and  died  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  5,  1883.  Courtlandt  P.  Dixon's  father  was  Nathan 
Fellows  Dixon,  United  States  Senator  from  Rhode  Island,  who  died  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  January  29,  1842,  while  serving  his  term  as  Senator; 
his  mother  was  Betsy  Palmer  Dixon,  daughter  of  Captain  Amos  Palmer 
of  Stonington,  Conn.     She  died  in  Westerly,  R.  I.,  March  30,  1859. 

Dixon's  mother,  Hannah  Elizabeth  Williams,  born  in  Stonington,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1817,  died  in  the  City  of  New  York  October  30,  1888,  was  daughter 
of  Captain  Ephraim  Williams  of  Stonington,  who  was  a  collateral  descend- 
ant of  Colonel  Ephraim  Williams  who  founded  Williams  College.     Her 


122  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

mother  was  Hannah  Eliza  Denison,  daughter  of  Amos  Denison  of  Ston- 
ington,  who  was  son  of   Deacon  Joseph  Denison  and  great-grandson  of 
George  Denison  of  Westerly. 
A  brother,  Ephraim  W.  Dixon,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  188 1. 

William  P.  Dixon  was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  19,  1847. 
The  family  removed  to  Brooklyn  in  1848,  and  he  was  prepared 
for  college  there  by  J.  C.  Overhiser.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Promenade  Committee,  which  had  charge  of  the  Junior  Exhibi- 
tion and  Promenade,  was  one  of  the  nine  Cochlaureati,  made 
the  Presentation  Address  at  the  Wooden  Spoon  Exhibition,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee  in  Senior 
year. 

He  was  graduated  at  Columbia  College  Law  School  in  May, 
1870,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Farnam,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Dixon  &  Farnam,  with  whom  he  continued  till  1875, 
when  Farnam  retired.  Dixon  continued  by  himself  at  29  Wall 
Street  until  January  1,  1882,  when  he  joined  George  Macculloch 
Miller  and  Wheeler  H.  Peckham,  forming  the  firm  of  Miller, 
Peckham  &  Dixon.  This  firm  continued  until  July  1,  1900,  when 
it  was  dissolved,  and  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  cousin, 
Jabish  Holmes,  forming  the  firm  of  Dixon  &  Holmes. 

Dixon  is  a  Trustee  of  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  New  York ;  a  Director  of  the  Lawyer's  Title  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  of  The  Mortgage-Bond  Company,  of  The 
Fidelity  and  Casualty  Company,  of  The  American  Exchange 
National  Bank,  of  The  City  of  New  York  Insurance  Company; 
President  and  Director  of  the  New  York  Real  Estate  Association, 
of  The  Manhattan  Real  Estate  Association,  of  The  Central  Real 
Estate  Association,  of  The  Colonial  Real  Estate  Association. 

April  26,  1871,  he  married,  at  Riverdale-on-Hudson,  Evelena 
F.  Babcock,  daughter  of  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  Esq.  They  had 
one  daughter,  Evelena  Babcock,  born  in  New  York  City,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1873,  and  two  sons,  William  Henry,  born  at  Riverdale 
(New  York  City),  August  16,  1877,  and  Courtlandt  Palmer, 
born  at  Seabright,  N.  J.,  July  2,  1884. 

Evelena  was  married  December  2,  1896,  to  Eben  Stevens  (Yale 
College  1892),  and  has  two  sons:  Byam  K.  Stevens,  born 
November  16,  1897,  and  William  Dixon  Stevens,  born  May  17, 
1 901. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  I  23 

William  Henry  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from 
Columbia  College  in  1900  and  is  now  a  broker  in  New  York  City. 
On  January  30,  1901,  he  married,  in  the  City  of  New  York, 
Josephine  T.  Williams,  and  has  two  children:  William  Palmer 
Dixon,  born  March  19,  1902,  and  Barbara  W.  Dixon,  born  April 
30,  1903,  both  in  New  York  City. 

Courtlandt  Palmer  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from 
Yale  College  in  1908.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Yale  Polo  Team 
three  years,  and  in  Senior  year  was  President  of  the  Yale  Uni- 
versity Club.  On  January  26,  191 1,  he  was  married  in  New 
York  City  to  Hortense  Howland. 

Mrs.  Evelena  F.  Dixon  died  in  New  York  City,  April  30,  1908. 


Cornelius    DuBois,  Jr. 

Son  of  Cornelius  DuBois  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  Julia  Ann 
(Moore)  DuBois  of  Washington  County,  N.  Y.  His  father,  Cornelius 
DuBois,  was  of  the  fifth  generation  in  direct  descent  from  Jacques 
duBois,  a  Huguenot  of  France  who  settled  at  Esopus  (Kingston),  N.  Y., 
in  1675  and  died  there  in  1676.  In  1707,  Pierre  duBois,  son  of  Jacques, 
moved  to  Fishkill,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  the  home  of  this  branch  of 
the  DuBois  family  in  America. 

The  name  appears  frequently  in  the  Colonial  and  Revolutionary  history 
of  New  York.  Cornelius  DuBois,  Sr.,  at  his  death  in  1879,  was  President 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Poughkeepsie.  He  was  also  with  Matthew 
Yassar,  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,  Benson  J.  Lossing  and  others,  one  of  the 
original  trustees  of  Vassar  College  and  of  the  Hudson  River  State  Hos- 
pital (for  the  insane)  at  Poughkeepsie,  as  well  as  one  of  the  founders 
in  1855  of  the  Republican  party  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Cornelius  DuBois,  brother  of  our  classmate,  was  graduated 
from  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  1854.  He  died  May  25,  1903,  at  Lima, 
Peru,  after  a  very  active  life  as  an  engineer  and  builder  of  railroads. 

Cornelius  DuBois,  Jr.,  the  third  son  and  the  eighth  and  last 
child  of  the  family,  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  June  7,  1845, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Dutchess  County  Academy, 
Poughkeepsie.  He  joined  the  Class  of  '68  at  Yale  at  the  begin- 
ning of  Sophomore  year,  having  spent  his  Freshman  year  at 
Amherst  College,  where  he  was  the  Greek  prizeman  of  his  class. 
At  Yale  he  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition  and 
was  graduated  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank. 

After  graduation,  DuBois  taught  Latin  at  Cook's  Collegiate 
Institute  for  Young  Ladies  (later  Lyndon  Hall  School)  at  Pough- 


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THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


keepsie.  In  1871  he  entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons, New  York  City,  but  remained  only  one  year.  Thereafter 
he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Tristam  Coffin  of  Poughkeepsie, 
and  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  at  Poughkeepsie  on 
May  13,  1875. 

DuBois  remained  in  Poughkeepsie  until  1888,  practicing  law  and 
interesting  himself  for  many  years  in  the  local  Board  of  Educa- 
tion and  in  the  Dutchess  County  branch  of  the  American  Society 


for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  carrying  on  this  latter 
work  with  the  greatest  enthusiasm,  often  single-handed  and  prac- 
tically always  at  his  own  expense.  DuBois  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers in  1873  of  the  Amrita  Club  of  Poughkeepsie.  Upon  leav- 
ing Poughkeepsie,  he  practiced  law  for  some  years  in  New  York 
City.  In  1894  he  became  associated  with  the  Trow  Press  in  Xcw 
York  but  from  this  he  has  recently  withdrawn. 

DuBois  was  married  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the 
Beloved  Disciple,  East  89th  Street,  New  York  City,  on  November 
20,  1894,  to  Sarah  Ann  Kelly,  of  Staten  Island.  Mrs.  DuBois 
died  in  the  New  York  Hospital,  December  1,  1894,  aged  forty-one 
years,  and  she  is  buried  in  St.  Peter's  Cemetery,  West  New 
Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 


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125 


*William  Durant 

Son  of  William  C.  and  A.  E.  (White)  Durant.  His  father,  William  C, 
was  son  of  Edward,  born  July  12,  1779,  and  grandson  of  Thomas,  born 
March  18,  1746.  Abigail  Durant,  sister  of  this  Thomas,  was  grandmother 
of  the  Founders  of  Wellesley  College,  Henry  Fowle  Durant  and  his  wife 
Pauline  (Fowle),  who  were  second  cousins.  Thomas  Clark  Durant, 
builder  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  was  a  first  cousin  of  Durant's  father. 
The  first  American  ancestor  was  George  Durant,  who  came  from  England, 
and  settled  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  in  1663. 


William  Durant  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  August  21,  1846, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Albany  Academy. 

After  traveling  one  year  in  Europe,  he  began  the  study  of 
theology  at  Princeton,  where  he  was  graduated  April  23,  1872. 
During  the  following  summer  he  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Milwaukee  (Rev.  G.  P.  Nichols,  pastor). 
After  a  season  of  western  travel,  he  returned  to  Albany,  where 
he  was  ordained  to  the  ministry  and  installed  pastor  of  the 
Sixth  Presbyterian  Church,  December  9,  1873.  May  11,  1883, 
he  was  installed  in  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Morristown,  N.  J.,  where  he  remained  till  May,  1887,  when 


126  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

he  resigned  to  accept  the  call  of  the  Boundary  Avenue  Church, 
Baltimore,  Md.  At  his  request,  he  was  released  from  the  latter 
June  1,  1892.  After  four  months  of  travel  with  his  wife  in 
France,  Holland  and  England,  he  returned  in  time  to  sit  as  a 
member  of  the  Presbytery  of  New  York  during  the  trial  of 
Professor  Charles  A.  Briggs,  and  voted  for  the  latter's  acquittal. 
Early  in  December,  1892,  he  received  a  unanimous  call  to  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  was  installed  as  pastor  February  15,  1893.  He  resigned  his 
pastorate  at  Saratoga  Springs  May  1,  1908,  anl  settled  at  Welles- 
ley,  Mass.,  in  1909. 

In  1894  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  Union 
College. 

He  has  published : 

"Church  Polity,"  a  selection  from  articles  contributed  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  Hodge,  D.D.,  to  the  Princeton  Review:  pp.  xi,  532.  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons.     1878. 

"History  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Morristown,"  with  genea- 
logical data  for  13,000  names  on  its  registers,  928  pages,  octavo. 

He  has  furnished  numerous  contributions  to  religious  papers  on 
subjects  of  ecclesiology  and  practical  religion,  and  published  a 
score  or  more  of  sermons  in  pamphlet  form. 

July  17,  1878,  he  was  married  at  Albany  to  Elizabeth  F. 
Stantial.  They  had  three  children,  only  one  of  whom  is  now- 
living :  Elizabeth,  born  in  Albany,  April  16,  1880,  died  in  Morris- 
town,  December  25,  1883;  William  Clark,  born  in  Morristown, 
February  13,  1883;  Betty  Stantial,  born  in  Morristown,  March 
18,  1885,  died  July  22,  1885. 

William  Clark  was  graduated  from  Union  College  in  1904 
with  the  degree  of  B.E.,  was  four  years  with  the  General  Elec- 
tric Company,  four  years  General  Superintendent  of  Prince 
Rupert  (B.  C.)  Hydro  Electric  Co.,  and  is  now  sales  manager 
of  the  Connecticut  River  Transmission  Co.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
He  was  married,  May  17,  1912,  to  Heloise  Timbrel  Durant, 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Clark  Durant,  and  daughter  of 
William  West  and  Janet  Lathrop  (Stott)  Durant. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  F.  (Stantial)  Durant  died  in  Morristown, 
March  18,  1885.  Durant  was  again  married,  May  19,  1887,  to 
Lucy  B.  Stantial  of  Albany,  N.  Y.  They  have  one  child,  Lois 
Pierson,  born  in  Baltimore,  January  7,  1890,  graduated  from 
Wellesley  College,  Department  of  Music,  in  191 3. 


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127 


William  Durant  died  at  his  home  in  Wellesley  on  March  i, 
1 9 14.  Funeral  services  were  held  in  Wellesley  Monday  morn- 
ing, and  on  Tuesday  in  the  chapel  of  the  Albany  Rural  Cemetery, 
where  interment  was  made  in  the  family  plot. 

Mrs.  Durant  resides  at  44  Dover  Road,  Wellesley,  Mass. 


*George  Eastburn 

Son  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  K.  (Taylor)  Eastburn,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 25,  1838,  in  Solebury  Township,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  where  the  East- 
burns  had  resided  since  1729. 

Before  entering  college,  he  served  in  the  Union  Army,  in  the 
Eleventh  Pennsylvania  Infantry.  This  was  a  three  months'  regi- 
ment, organized  at  Harrisburg,  April  26,  1861,  two  weeks  after 
the  attack  on  Fort  Sumter. 

Eastburn  was  prepared  for  Yale  by  Dr.  Joseph  Thomas,  Phila- 
delphia, and  entered  with  the  Class  of  '67.  At  the  end  of 
Sophomore  year  he  obtained  leave  of  absence  and  taught  a  year 
to  replenish  his  finances,  joining  '68  at  the  commencement  of 


128  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Junior  year.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  reading  room  in 
Senior  year,  was  interested  in  debating,  was  one  of  the  Presidents 
of  Brothers,  and  was  graduated  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in 
scholarship. 

In  October,  1868,  he  opened  an  English  and  Classical  School 
in  the  building  of  the  Third  National  Bank  at  Broad  and  Market 
Streets,  Philadelphia,  with  seven  pupils.  In  January,  1870,  in 
company  with  John  G.  Moore,  he  purchased  the  private  school 
of  Caleb  S.  Hallowell,  and  transferred  his  pupils  to  the  rooms 
formerly  occupied  by  Mr.  Hallowell,  on  Tenth  Street  above 
Arch,  and  there  mustered  about  fifty  pupils.  During  the 
summer  of  1870  he  moved  into  a  new  building  on  Ninth  Street 
above  Arch,  and  opened  with  increased  numbers  under  the  title 
of  ''Hallowell  Select  High  School."  As  his  partner,  Mr.  Moore, 
was  absent  a  good  deal  delivering  lectures  upon  science,  East- 
burn  was  the  recognized  head  of  the  institution.  Mr.  Moore 
died  in  April,  1872,  and  after  July  first  of  that  year  Eastburn 
was  the  sole  Proprietor  and  Principal. 

He  could  accommodate  only  about  seventy  pupils  in  the  build- 
ing on  Ninth  Street,  and  judged  it  necessary  to  obtain,  as  soon 
as  practicable,  other  quarters.  In  September,  1877,  he  opened 
his  school  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Broad  Street  and  Fairmount 
Avenue,  and  adopted  a  new  name:  "North  Broad  Street  Select 
School."  In  1893,  the  name  was  changed  to  "Eastburn  Acad- 
emy." He  was  Headmaster  of  this  school  for  thirty-three  years, 
and  during  this  time  prepared  many  boys  for  the  two  under- 
graduate departments  of  Yale,  and  for  Princeton  and  other 
universities. 

In  1905,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  withdrew  from  the 
Academy  and  opened  a  home  school  at  Atlantic  City,  limited  to 
ten  pupils.  A  year  later  he  returned  to  Philadelphia,  to  accept 
the  Professorship  of  Science  at  the  Northeast  Manual  Training 
School  in  that  city. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Schoolmasters'  Association  in 
1889,  he  presented  a  paper  on  the  Metric  System,  which  was 
afterwards  published  by  the  American  Metrological  Society.  In 
February,  1889,  he  made  an  address  on  the  Metric  System  before 
the  National  Association  of  Builders  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  at  their  annual  meeting,  which  was  published  in  full  in 
the  Report  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Association  for  that  year. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  I  29 

In  1890,  he  was  President  of  the  Schoolmasters'  Association 
of  Philadelphia.  At  the  annual  banquet  of  this  Association  for 
that  year,  Colonel  Clayton  McMichael  referred  to  its  President 
as  follows : 

"Thirty  years  ago  I  was  the  pupil  of  a  fair-faced,  smiling-eyed,  honest 
and  conscientious  lad,  so  fresh  himself  from  boyhood  as  to  have  a  sympa- 
thetic knowledge  of  the  ease  with  which  plastic  youth  may  be  moulded 
by  careful  touch ;  yet  ripe  in  the  wisdom  of  an  earnest  appreciation  that 
negligent  handling  of  the  facile  clay  would  imprint  upon  it  such  defac- 
ing marks  as  might  show  through  every  subsequent  effort  to  remove  them. 
The  thick  black  hair  which  then  clustered  in  profusion  about  my  temples 
has  been  thinned  and  whitened  by  the  bleaching  wastes  of  Time ;  the  soar- 
ing aspirations  of  extravagant  expectation  have  been  met  by  the  impas- 
sible obstacles  of  experience;  the  exaggerated  contests  of  childhood  have 
long  been  forgotten  in  the  common  struggles  of  maturity.  But  through 
every  period  of  a  life  that  has  not  been  uneventful,  I  have  been  grate- 
ful to  him  whose  eyes  to-night  are  not  less  smiling,  whose  face  to-night 
is  not  less  fair,  your  deservedly  honored  president,  George  Eastburn,  who 
first  taught  me  that  affection,  frankness  and  confidence,  the  discipline  of 
truth  and  tenderness  that  makes  obedience  a  pleasure,  the  cement  of  loyal 
and  trusting  fellowship — all  those  qualities  that  hold  us  in  such  fealty 
to  the  associations  of  kindred  and  of  home,  could  not  be  less  potent  in 
the  school-room  than  in  the  happy  domestic  circles  where  previously  I 
had  known  them  best. 

"There  are  tradesmen  who  adulterate  their  merchandise ;  there  are  finan- 
ciers who  betray  their  trusts ;  there  are  boys  who  are  not  ashamed  of  false 
pretense.  There  would  be  a  less  number  of  either  if  all  schoolmasters 
had  been  as  was  this  one  whom  I  have  named.'' 

Princeton  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  in  1890. 

Eastburn  was  married  to  Mary  Olden  Davis,  September  8, 
1870,  in  Philadelphia,  and  had  by  this  marriage  one  son,  Holmes 
Davis,  born  May  15,  1872.  His  wife,  after  a  lingering  illness, 
died  May  8,  1873.  He  was  again  married,  July  12,  1876,  in 
Philadelphia,  to  Elizabeth  M.  Beale,  and  had  another  son,  George 
Eastburn,  Jr.,  born  in  Germantown,  August  31,  1877,  and  a 
daughter,  Agnes  Grant,  born  in  Philadelphia,  October  16,  1878. 

Holmes  D.  Eastburn  was  married  April  30,  1895,  to  Eleanor 
J.  Whitten,  and  was  for  a  time  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  of  Philadelphia. 

George  Eastburn,  Jr.,  was  a  member  of  Haverford  College  till 
the  end  of  Freshman  year. 

Eastburn  died  of  uremia  in  Philadelphia,  October  13,  1907,  in 
his  seventieth  year. 
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130  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

*Tryon  Holkar  Edwards 

Son  of  Rev.  Tryon  and  Catherine  (Hughes)  Edwards.  His  father, 
Tryon  Edwards  (Yale  College  1828),  son  of  Jonathan  Walter  Edwards 
(Yale  College  1789)  and  Elizabeth  (Tryon)  Edwards,  was  the  founder  of 
Wilson  College  for  Women  at  Chambersburg,  Pa. 

Tryon  H.  Edwards  was  born  February  26,  1846,  in  New 
London,  Conn.,  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Edwards  Place 
School,  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  and  was  a  member  of  '67  till  the 
close  of  Sophomore  year.  In  September,  1866,  he  joined  '68,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  class  till  near  the  close  of  Junior  year. 

After  leaving  college,  he  taught  several  years  in  Easton,  Pa., 
and  then  traveled  west,  south,  and  abroad.  He  afterwards 
studied  law,  and  in  1873  began  practicing  as  an  attorney  in 
Hagerstown,  Md.  In  1880  he  became  an  attorney  and  counsellor- 
at-law  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  his  specialty 
being  Railroad  and  Corporation  Law.  For  several  years  he  was 
Commissioner  of  the  Court  for  Washington  County,  Md. 

In  June,  1892,  Yale  University  conferred  on  him  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts,  with  enrollment  in  his  Class. 

He  was  married  February  13,  1873,  at  Hagerstown,  to  Lydia 
Hollingsworth  Kennedy,  and  had  four  children:  Katharine  H., 
born  December  7,  1873 ;  Mamie  H.  K.,  born  July  6,  1875  ;  Lydia 
H.  K.,  born  April  20,  1878;   Tryon  P.,  born  October  24,  1880. 

Mrs.  Edwards  died  March  19,  1882. 

Tryon  H.  Edwards  died  February  18,  1904. 


*Albert  Henry  Esty 

Son  of  Edward  S.  and  Frances  Amelia  (Wilgus)  Esty.  On  his  father's 
side  he  was  ninth  lineal  descendant  from  John  and  Mary  Winslow  of  the 
Mayflower  through  his  paternal  grandmother,  and  ninth  from  Isaac  Esty 
of  Topsfield  and  his  wife,  Mary  Esty,  who  was  executed  as  a  witch  on 
Salem  Hill.  His  father,  Edward  S.  Esty,  reformed  the  entire  school  sys- 
tem of  Ithaca  and  was  President  of  the  new  Board  of  Education  from  its 
formation  till  his  death.  He  had  a  successful  career  in  the  New  York  State 
Senate  and  proposed  many  measures  of  reform,  in  which  he  was  associ- 
ated with  Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  was  in  the  Assembly  at  the  time. 
Frances  Amelia  Wilgus,  born  in  Westmoreland,  N.  Y.,  1827,  was  a 
descendant  of  Peregrine  White  of  the  Plymouth  Colony. 


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Albert  H.  Esty  was  born  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  May  29,  1847,  an(l 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Ithaca  Academy.  After  graduation 
he  taught  Latin  and  higher  mathematics  two  years  in  the  Ithaca 
Academy.  In  1871  he  went  to  Europe  for  further  study,  with 
the  view  of  making  teaching  his  profession.  He  spent  several 
months  at  Wolfenbuttel  in  Germany  in  the  study  of  the  German 
language,  and  subsequently  was  matriculated  at  the  University 
of  Leipsic,  where  he  attended  lectures  for  a  year. 


On  his  return  to  Ithaca  in  1873,  as  his  father  needed  him  in 
his  expanding  business  and  was  desirous  of  more  time  for  public 
service,  Esty  became  associated  as  a  partner  with  his  father  and 
brother,  Clarence  H.  Esty,  in  the  leather  business,  under  the  firm 
name  of  E.  S.  Esty  &  Sons.  They  were  manufacturers  of  Hum- 
boldt sole  leather,  and  had  in  operation  three  tanneries  located 
in  or  near  Ithaca.  After  the  death  of  his  father  in  1890,  the 
firm  name  became  E.  S.  Esty's  Sons.  The  business  was  continued 
till  the  formation  of  the  United  States  Leather  Company  in  1893, 
when  a  merger  was  made  in  that  Company.  After  a  year  spent 
in  travel,  he  located  with  his  mother  and  brother  in  Brookline, 


132  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Mass.,  in  order  to  be  able  to  enjoy  the  musical  and  cultural 
advantages  of  Boston. 

While  in  Ithaca  he  occupied  many  positions  of  trust.  Among 
them  were  the  following :  Trustee  First  Presbyterian  Church ; 
Director  First  National  Bank ;  Trustee  Ithaca  Trust  Company ; 
member  of  Board  of  Education  of  the  City  of  Ithaca;  Trustee 
Children's  Home,  founded  by  his  father;  Trustee  Ithaca  City 
Hospital,  which  was  founded  by  the  family  in  honor  of  his  father 
and  to  which  he  gave,  in  addition  to  his  original  contribution, 
five  thousand  dollars  to  endow  a  free  bed. 

He  showed  signs  of  failing  health  not  many  years  after  his 
retirement  from  active  business,  and  after  a  protracted  illness 
died,  April  13,  19 10,  in  Brookline,  from  hardening  of  the  arteries 
at  the  base  of  the  brain,  and  his  body  rests  in  Mount  Auburn. 

The  following  is  taken  from  a  personal  letter  written  by  his 
brother  Clarence  to  McKinney : 

"Albert  developed  a  careful,  systematic,  painstaking  method  in  business 
tasks,  and  was  respected  widely  in  business  circles  for  sound  ability,  abso- 
lute integrity,  and  perfect  fairness  in  all  his  dealings  with  his  employees. 
All  through  his  life  there  played  a  genial  humor,  which  made  him  a 
delightful  companion  in  any  society.  Pronounced  originality  of  thought 
and  view  made  his  comments  on  men  and  things  of  unfailing  interest.  He 
dispensed  a  quiet,  but  generous  charity  of  word  and  purse  to  the  poor 
and  afflicted.  He  was  generous  to  the  point  of  being  lavish  in  his  gifts 
to  those  he  loved,  and  was  constantly  doing  good  to  those  he  called  'God's 
poor.'  Little  crippled  newsboys  and  flower  sellers  in  Boston  were  among 
the  sincerest  mourners  at  his  death.  He  will  live  in  the  loving  remem- 
brance of  his  friends  and  of  every  one  who  ever  knew  him,  and  that  is 
all  the  fame  he  ever  craved.  His  heart  seemed  centered  in  his  mother, 
sister,  and  brother,  and  their  children,  and  he  never  married.  The  closest 
and  tenderest  bonds  of  love  held  us  together  as  a  family,  and  I  can  never 
feel  that  the  plan  of  existence  is  complete  until  we  are  united  again." 


*Charles  Henry  Farnam 

Was  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation  from  Ralph  Farnam.  who 
sailed  from  Southampton,  England,  April  6,  1635,  arrived  in  Boston  June 
3,  following,  and  settled  at  Andover,  Mass.  His  father,  Henry  Farnam, 
bore  the  chief  part  of  the  expense  of  Farnam  Hall,  completed  in  1870, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  generous  benefactors  of  Yale  College.  His 
great-grandfather,  Captain  Eliab  Farnam,  served  in  both  Colonial  and 
Revolutionary  Wars.  His  mother,  Ann  Sophia  Whitman,  was  descended 
from  John  Whitman  of  Weymouth,  Mass. 


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*33 


Three  other  sons  of  Henry  Farnam  have  received  degrees  from  Yale: 
George  B.  Farnam  (M.D.  Yale  1869)  ;  William  W.  Farnam  (Yale  College 
1866),  Treasurer  of  Yale  University  from  1888  to  1899;  and  Henry  \\  . 
Farnam    (Yale  College    1874),    Professor  of    Political   Economy   in  Yale 

University. 

Charles  H.  Farnam  was  born  September  12,  1846,  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  and  received  his  preparation  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  The  family  removed  to  Chicago  in  1857, 
and  was  living  there  when  Farnam  entered  Yale.     He  had  Phi 


Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship,  and  was  one  of  the  speakers  at 
Junior  Exhibition  and  at  Commencement. 

After  graduation,  he  spent  one  year  in  Europe  and  two  years 
in  New  York  City  at  the  Columbia  College  Law  School,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1871,  and  the  same  year  entered  into 
partnership  with  Dixon  under  the  firm  name  of  Dixon  &  Farnam. 
The  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1875. 

He  removed  to  New  Haven  and  from  1877  to  1891  was  Assist- 
ant in  Archaeology  in  the  Peabody  Museum  of  Yale  University. 

After  several  years  of  genealogical  research,  he  published : 

"The  History  of  the  Descendants  of  John  Whitman  of  Weymouth, 
Mass.,"    1,500  pages,  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  1889. 


134  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Farnam  was  a  very  active  and  useful  citizen  of  New  Haven. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Haven  Board  of  Councilmen  in 
1879,  and  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1880  and  1881.  For 
several  years  he  was  President  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Commis- 
sioners. He  was  especially  interested  in  the  Fire  Department, 
and  did  much  to  bring-  the  force  to  a  high  degree  of  efficiency. 
It  was  in  no  small  measure  due  to  his  efforts  that  the  department 
was  freed  from  the  control  of  the  political  machine. 

June  8,  1870,  he  was  married  in  New  Haven  to  Alice  Mordant 
Davies,  daughter  of  John  May  and  Alice  S.  (Hopper)  Davies, 
and  had  two  children:  Annie  May,  born  March  29,  1871,  in 
New  Haven;  Charles  Henry,  born  September  12,  1873,  in  New 
York  City.  Mrs.  Farnam  died  February  10,  1899,  and  he  was 
afterwards  married  to  Caroline  Sutton,  who  died  in  1907. 

Annie  May  Farnam  was  married,  February  10,  1891,  at  Trinity 
Church,  New  Haven,  to  Frank  L.  Woodward  (Yale  College 
1888).  A  son,  Charles  Farnam  Woodward,  was  born  February 
20,  1892,  and  died  August  21  of  the  same  year. 

Charles  Henry  Farnam,  Jr.,  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School  in  1895.  He  died  of  meningitis  at  Epinay,  a 
suburb  of  Paris,  May  8,  1909. 

After  an  illness  of  more  than  a  year,  Farnam  died,  September 
24,  1909,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Woodward,  in 
Denver,  Colorado. 

During  his  lifetime  (August  21,  1901)  he  created  a  trust  from 
which  Yale  University  will  eventually  receive  securities  that  will 
yield  probably  about  $10,000  a  year,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
department  of  History. 


*William  Henry  Ferry 

His  earliest  paternal  ancestor  in  America  was  John  Ferry,  a  refugee 
from  Lorraine,  who  emigrated  in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century 
and  eventually  settled  in  Springfield,  Mass.  His  grandfather,  Heman 
Ferry,  was  the  son  of  Noah  and  Hannah  (Montague)  Ferry  of  Granby. 
His  father,  William  H.  Ferry,  a  native  of  Remsen,  N.  Y.,  was  State 
Senator  from  Oneida  County  in  1859,  and  was  President  pro  tern,  of  that 
body.  In  1861  he  was  Chairman  of  the  County  Committee,  and  by  a 
personal  canvass  elected  Roscoe  Conkling  to  his  first  term  in  Congress. 
Mr.  Ferry  was  a  leader  in  New  York  State  politics,  and  was  influential 
in    forming   the    Republican    party.     In    1859    he   was    a    delegate   to    the 


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35 


Chicago  Convention  that  nominated  Lincoln,  and  was  made  Chairman 
of  the  Central  New  York  State  Republican  Committee  in  that  campaign. 
He  removed  to  Chicago  in  1865,  where  he  was  a  prominent  railroad 
director  and  re-organizer.  Ferry's  mother,  May  Ann  Williams,  was  of 
Welsh  descent.  Her  grandfather,  Captain  Williams,  was  in  both  the 
French  and  Indian  and  the  Revolutionary  Wars.  A  brother,  Charles 
Herbert  Ferry,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1872. 

William  H.  Ferry  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1845,  was 
prepared  for  college  partly  at  Utica  Free  Academy  and  partly  by 


a  private  tutor,  and  entered  Yale  from  Chicago.  He  rowed  in 
the  Varuna  gig  in  Sophomore  year,  stroked  the  Varuna  shell  in 
the  fall  races  of  our  Senior  year,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity crew  that  rowed  in  the  race  against  Harvard  on  Lake 
Quinsigamond  at  Worcester  in  July,  1867. 

On  his  return  to  Chicago  after  graduation,  he  arranged  to 
study  with  a  prominent  law  firm  in  that  city,  but  a  weakness  of 
his  eyes,  experienced  in  college,  continuing,  he  was  at  length 
forced  to  abandon  his  plans  of  a  professional  life. 

In  1870-71  he  traveled  in  Europe,  for  the  greater  part  of  the 
time  with  J.  W.  Greene.  On  his  return  in  1872,  he  became  nego- 
tiator of  real  estate  and  loans  in  Chicago,  and  handled  some  large 


136  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

subdivisions  in  city  limits.  Afterwards  he  went  into  wholesale 
dry  goods,  which  business  he  gave  up  in  1885  and  removed  to 
California,  where  he  purchased  a  ranch  of  about  three  thousand 
two  hundred  acres  in  El  Cajon  Valley.  He  spent  much  of  his 
time  in  San  Diego,  and  became  Vice-President  of  the  San  Diego 
Flume  Company,  which  completed  a  flume  forty-eight  miles  in 
length,  that  conveyed  the  water  from  a  reservoir  in  the  Cuyamaca 
mountains  to  supply  the  City  of  San  Diego  and  to  irrigate  the 
valley  and  table-lands  around  it.  This  flume  passed  through 
seven  tunnels  having  an  aggregate  length  of  four  thousand  one 
hundred  and  twenty-four  feet,  and  over  twelve  trestles  having  a 
total  length  of  eight  thousand  eight  hundred  and  four  feet.  It 
was  said  to  be  at  the  time  the  most  solidly  and  thoroughly  built 
structure  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States. 

Ferry  was  also  for  several  years  President  of  the  San  Diego 
Water  and  Land  Company,  which  had  some  one  thousand  three 
hundred  acres  suitable  for  lemon  and  orange  culture.  In  addition 
to  his  official  duties,  he  found  time  for  planting  trees,  clearing  off 
land,  and  putting  it  under  cultivation. 

He  made  a  specialty  of  fig  growing  and  curing,  which  had  pre- 
viously received  little  attention,  and  took  first  prize  whenever  his 
figs  were  exhibited,  in  both  the  County  and  State  fairs.  He  was 
called  upon  to  write  articles  for  magazines  and  to  deliver  numerous 
addresses  upon  figs  and  fig  culture,  and  it  is  generally  acknowl- 
edged that  he  did  more  than  anyone  else  to  make  the  production 
of  the  dried  fig  a  commercial  success  in  California.  For  his  exhibit 
of  dried  figs  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  he  received  a 
diploma  and  medal. 

He  met  an  accidental  death,  March  4,  1900,  when  only  fifty- 
four  years  of  age.  He  had  been  at  Lake  Forest  to  visit  his  sister, 
and  had  reached  the  station  to  take  a  train  to  return  to  Chicago 
a  little  before  nine  in  the  evening.  The  local  train  which  he 
expected  to  take  was  preceded  by  a  fast  express  by  only  two  or 
three  minutes,  and  he  evidently  did  not  know  about  this  fast 
express  which  did  not  stop.  In  crossing  the  track  to  get  his  train, 
he  was  struck  and  instantly  killed.  His  funeral  services  were 
held  at  Lake  Forest  on  Wednesday,  March  7,  and  he  was  buried 
in  Rose  Hill  Cemetery. 

Ferry  was  always  hopeful,  and  reverses  that  would  discourage 
most  men  only  stimulated  him  to  greater  effort.     In  many  direc- 


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tions  he  had  a  thorny,  disturbing  life.  His  experiences  in  Cali- 
fornia were  those  of  many  others  who  had  invested  heavily  and 
were  continually  disappointed  in  crops  and  returns,  and  by 
depreciating-  values.  He  was  just  beginning  to  see  daylight  after 
these  hard  struggles,  but  the  values  which  he  had  seen  to  be  so 
near  were  to  be  appreciated  by  others. 

October  12,  1875,  he  was  married  at  Chicago,  111.,  to  Abbie 
Farwell,  daughter  of  John  V.  Farwell,  and  had  five  boys : 
William  H.,  born  July  13,  1876,  died  February  25,  1883;  John 
Farwell,  born  October  10,  1877 ;  Frank  Farwell,  born  November 
12,  1878;  Montague,  born  September  22,  1881 ;  Horace  Farwell, 
born  May  13,  1884. 

John  Farwell  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1 90 1.  He  was  General  Secretary  of  the  Sheffield  Chris- 
tian Association  for  one  year  after  his  graduation,  and  Ornitholo- 
gist of  the  Field  Columbian  Museum  from  1906  till  his  death, 
February  12,  19 10. 

Frank  Farwell  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1900,  and 
is  Superintendent  and  Secretary  of  the  J.  V.  Farwell  Company 
of  Chicago. 

Montague  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1902  and  from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in  1903. 
He  is  City  Electrician  and  Inspector  of  Electric  Lights,  Chicago. 
He  married  Josephine,  daughter  of  Judge  J.  N.  Carter  of  Quincy, 
111.     They  have  a  daughter,  Phyllis  Carter  Ferry,  born  June  24, 

191 1,  at  Chicago. 

Horace  Farwell  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1906  and 
from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  191 1.  He  was  ordained  to 
the  Christian  ministry  by  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  April  17, 

1912,  and  is  now  in  charge  of  six  Home  Mission  churches,  with 
headquarters  at  Superior,  Wis. 


4 

*George  William  Fisher 

Second  son  of  Erastus  and  Mary  F.  (Dresser)  Fisher.  His  father  was 
son  of  Laban  Fisher,  who  was  born  in  Killingly,  Conn.,  in  1783,  and  mar- 
ried Abigail  Dexter  of  that  town.  He  died  in  i860.  Mary  F.  Dresser 
was  daughter  of  Ebene.^er  Dresser,  a  farmer  by  occupation,  who  was  born 
May  16,   1772. 


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George  W.  Fisher  was  born  in  Grafton,  Mass.,  November  18, 
1843.  His  parents  lived  in  Worcester  when  he  came  to  college, 
and  he  was  prepared  at  the  Worcester  High  School. 

Immediately  after  graduation  he  went  into  business  with  his 
father,  who  had  been  the  chief  manufacturer  of  cotton  goods  in 
Grafton  since  1845.  The  following  year  Mr.  Fisher  transferred 
a  one-fourth  interest  to  each  of  his  two  sons,  George  W.  and 
Albert  L.  Fisher.    The  young  men  gave  an  impetus  to  the  busi- 


ness. New  buildings  were  erected,  and  the  capacity  of  the  mill 
was  nearly  doubled.  In  1880  Erastus  Fisher  died,  leaving  his 
sons  in  charge  of  the  mills.  The  following  year  the  entire  plant 
was  destroyed  by  fire.  In  the  spring  of  1882  a  new  company. 
The  Fisher  Manufacturing  Company,  was  incorporated,  and 
George  W.  Fisher  was  made  the  sole  manager.  Descended  from 
a  long  line  of  successful  manufacturers,  he  had  inherited  great 
executive  ability,  and  it  was  due  directly  to  his  business  capacity 
that  one  of  the  largest  manufacturing  plants  in  New  England 
was  built  ui>.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  it  included  the  four- 
story  brick  mill  (the  second  largest  in  the  Blackstone  Valley), 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES  I  39 

an  office,  three  storehouses,  the  village  store,  thirty-two  houses 
containing  one  hundred  and  two  tenements,  two  private  resi- 
dences, and  several  small  buildings.  The  mill  was  equipped  with 
all  modern  machinery.  The  goods  were  of  such  a  quality  that 
the  company  had  practically  the  monopoly  of  its  special  products 
in  New  England.  The  business  was  in  Fisherville,  but  Fisher's 
residence  was  in  Grafton,  about  three  miles  distant.  He  became 
Grafton's  most  prominent  manufacturer  and  one  of  its  wealthiest 
and  most  honored  citizens.  Though  averse  to  holding  office,  he 
took  much  interest  in  town  affairs  and  served  the  town  in  1878 
and  1879  as  Selectman,  was  Assessor,  and  member  of  the  School 
Committee.  He  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Public  Library  and  a 
Director  in  the  National  Bank  of  Grafton. 

He  was  married  at  Northbridge,  Mass.,  January  18,  1876,  to 
Ella  Frances  Farnum  of  Uxbridge,  daughter  of  Luke  S.  and 
Chloe  (Taft)  Farnum. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Grafton  on  February  17,  1900,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-six  years.  On  the  day  of  his  death  the  Worcester 
Telegram  said : 

"The  generous  disposition  of  its  owners  has  made  the  Fisher  mill  one 
of  the  highest  salaried  in  New  England.  Throughout  the  Blackstone 
Valley,  the  employees  of  the  Fishers  were  regarded  as  favored  individuals, 
and  the  village  was  almost  always  overrun  with  applicants  for  positions. 
In  George  W.  Fisher  the  four  hundred  people  employed  at  the  plant  had 
a  kind,  considerate,  generous  employer  and  benefactor.  During  the  panic 
of  1893  he  ran  the  mill  at  a  loss  rather  than  see  his  employees  suffer 
through  lack  of  work." 


Benjamin  Austin  Fowler 

Son  of  Benjamin  Coleman  and  Sophia  Cowdrey  (Stevens)  Fowler,  and 
brother  of  Herbert  G.  Fowler   (Yale  College  1874). 

Benjamin  A.  Fowler  was  born  in  Stoneham,  Mass.,  December 
14,  1843,  attended  the  public  schools  in  Stoneham,  and  prepared 
for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He  rowed  in  the 
Glyuna  shell,  and  on  the  class  crew  in  the  Harbor  races  in 
Senior  year. 

In  August,  1862,  soon  after  graduating  at  Andover,  he  enlisted 
in   the   Fiftieth   Massachusetts   Volunteers   and   joined   General 


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Banks  at  New  York,  where  he  was  detailed  for  special  service 
in  the  United  States  Signal  Corps  and  sent  to  Louisiana.  He 
was  before  Port  Hudson  from  the  first  till  its  surrender  in 
July  and  participated  in  most  of  the  battles.  Upon  the  day  of 
its  surrender,  he  accompanied  an  expedition  to  Donaldsonville, 
which  met  with  a  severe  repulse.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the 
service  in  August,  1863,  and  came  to  college.  After  passing  the 
first  and  second  terms  of  Freshman  year  with  '67,  he  left  on 


account  of  ill  health  resulting  from  disease  contracted  in  the 
army,  and  joined  '68  in  January,  1865. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  studied 
law  one  year  in  the  Boston  office  of  Russell,  Russell  &  Suter,  and 
then  engaged  in  business  in  Boston.  From  1874  to  [878  he  was 
agent  for  the  subscription  departments  of  A.  J.  Johnson  and 
D.  Appleton  &  Company,  both  of  New  York  City. 

The  firm  of  B.  A.  Fowler  &  Company,  publishers,  was  estab- 
lished in  1878.  They  were  publishers  of  "The  Student's  Shake- 
speare," which  had  a  large  sale,  and  of  other  subscription  books; 
were  New  England  agents  for   "The  International  Cyclopedia." 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  141 

Dodd,  Mead  &  Company  (Mead  '68),  publishers;  and  likewise 
New  England  agents  for  the  Western  Publishing  House  of 
Chicago. 

Until  the  fall  of  1888,  Fowler's  home  was  in  Stoneham,  where 
he  was  prominent  in  town  affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Stoneham  Board  of  Education  from  1871  to  1876. 

February  1,  1889,  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  and  became 
General  Manager  of  the  Subscription  Department  of  Dodd,  Mead 
&  Company.  In  May,  1894,  he  severed  his  connection  with  them 
after  a  service  of  more  than  eight  years  as  agent  and  general 
manager,  and  bought  a  half  interest  in  the  firm  of  Powers 
Brothers  of  Chicago,  later  Powers,  Fowler  &  Lewis,  manu- 
facturers of  subscription  and  educational  specialties.  From  this 
firm  he  withdrew  May  1,  1898,  later  went  west  to  Arizona,  and 
in  March,  1899,  purchased  a  fruit  ranch  in  the  Salt  River  Valley 
near  Phoenix.  At  once  he  became  prominent  in  the  industrial, 
political  and  social  life  of  the  Territory,  and  has  been  a  leader 
in  all  public  enterprises  for  the  development  of  the  city  and 
valley.  In  1901  he  was  a  member  of  the  Twenty-first  Territorial 
Legislature;  in  1904  Republican  nominee  for  Territorial  Dele- 
gate to  Congress;  from  August,  1900,  to  February,  1903,  head 
of  the  water  storage  movement  in  the  Salt  River  Valley. 

It  was  largely  due  to  his  efforts  that  the  Salt  River  Valley 
Water  Users'  Association  was  organized,  bringing  together  the 
various  canal  and  agricultural  interests.  The  Association  now 
has  about  thirty-six  hundred  shareholders,  owning  two  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  acres  of  land,  pledged  to  reimburse  the 
United  States  Government  for  over  ten  million  dollars  expended 
in  constructing  the  Salt  River  irrigation  project,  including  the 
Roosevelt  dam.  He  spent  part  of  the  winter  of  1900-01  and  the 
first  six  months  of  1902  in  Washington,  laboring  for  the  passage 
of  the  National  Irrigation  Act.  At  the  celebration,  June  13,  1908, 
on  the  completion  of  the  Granite  Reef  diversion  dam  built  by 
the  United  States  Reclamation  Service  as  auxiliary  to  the 
Roosevelt  impounding  dam,  Chief  Justice  Kent  (Harvard  '83) 
of  the  Arizona  Supreme  Court  said: 

"It  is  not  necessary  nor  advisable  at  this  time,  under  the  conditions 
of  temperature  and  the  long  ride  ahead  of  us,  to  undertake  to  give  credit 
or  even  a  bare   mention   of  the  names   of  many  men  in  the  valley  who 


142  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

have  given  much  time  and  effort  to  this  notable  and  in  many  ways  pioneer 
work,  many  of  whom  are  here  to-day.  However,  there  is  one  man  who 
is  unable  to  be  here,  who  has  worked  unceasingly  both  here  and  in  Wash- 
ington, from  the  inception  of  this  project,  and  whose  work  could  scarcely 
have  been  dispensed  with.  That  man  is  B.  A.  Fowler,  who  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Water  Users'  Association  ever  since  it  was  organized, 
and  who  has  worked  assiduously  for  the  success  of  the  undertaking  at 
all  seasons." 

March  13,  1906,  F.  H.  Newell,  Chief  Engineer  of  the  United 
States  Reclamation  Service,  wrote  from  Washington,  D.  C,  to 
Governor  Kibbey  of  Arizona : 

"My  dear  Governor: 

Mr.  B.  A.  Fowler  has  just  left  for  Phoenix,  having  informed  me  that 
the  purchase  of  the  Arizona  canal  is  practically  completed.  I  feel  that 
Mr.  Fowler  has  acomplished  a  great  work,  and  I  wish  at  this  time,  while 
the  matter  is  fresh  in  mind,  to  express  to  you,  and  through  you  possibly 
to  others,  the  high  appreciation  felt  here  of  his  untiring  energy  on  behalf 
of  the  Territory,  not  only  along  water  storage  lines,  but  on  all  matters. 

"I  have  never  met  a  man  of  more  persistent  effort  and  tireless  energy, 
combined  with  patience  and  tact.  He  has  been  confronted  with  some  very 
difficult  situations,  which  would  have  appalled  another  man ;  and  prob- 
ably no  one  outside  of  a  few  acquaintances  ever  will  know  of  the  tire- 
less persistency  with  which  he  has  followed  up  every  detail. 

"I  hope  it  will  be  possible  now  to  push  forward  energetically  and  effec- 
tively the  dam  at  the  head  of  the  Arizona  canal,  as  well  as  the  other  work 
in  the  Territory. 

Very  truly  yours, 

(Signed)     F.  H.  Newell,  Chief  Engineer, 

U.  S.  Reclamation  Service." 

Fowler  was  President  of  the  Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users' 
Association  from  its  organization  until  19 10,  when  he  declined 
to  be  again  a  candidate  for  that  office,  after  having  given  ten 
of  the  best  years  of  his  life  to  this  work  and  having  witnessed 
the  realization  of  his  hopes  and  efforts.  The  following  estimate 
of  his  services  to  the  Association  is  from  the  Arizona  Republican 
of  March  24,  1910: 

"The  services  of  Benjamin  A.  Fowler  to  this  valley  have  been  of  value 
beyond  the  possibility  of  realization  by  any  citizen  who  has  not  kept  books 
on  his  work.  At  a  time  when  the  rest  of  us  looked  upon  'federal  irri- 
gation'   as  a  mere  dream  of  impractical  enthusiasts,  and  too  chimerical 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  143 

for  serious  consideration,  Mr.  Fowler  took  up  the  cause  with  an  energy 
and  enthusiasm  which  was  infectious.  At  his  own  expense  he  made  trip 
after  trip  to  Washington,  and  with  Mr.  George  H.  Maxwell  and  a  little 
band  of  'cranks,'  as  they  were  then  regarded,  he  pounded  into  Congress- 
men the  notion  of  federal  reclamation  of  the  arid  lands. 

"It  is  safe  to  say  that  in  one  way  or  another,  counting  direct  expendi- 
ture from  his  own  pocket  and  the  free  gift  of  his  time  in  the  cause,  it 
has  cost  him  quite  as  much  as  he  has  received  in  the  whole  aggregate  of 
his  petty  salary  since  the  Water  Users'  Association  was  formed.  When 
President  Roosevelt  came  on  the  scene,  the  federal  irrigationists  acquired 
a  powerful  ally,  and  two  years  afterward  success  was  achieved  in  the  form 
of  the  Reclamation  Act. 

"When  that  act  was  passed,  Mr.  Fowler  was  one  of  the  first  to  see  that 
it  was  practicable  to  apply  it  to  the  needs  of  this  valley.  Immediately  a 
movement  was  started  for  a  local  organization  of  water  users,  with  a 
view  to  obtaining  the  benefits  of  the  act. 

"Now  that  everything  is  working  so  smoothly,  it  is  difficult  to  realize 
the  obstacles  encountered  in  those  days  of  preliminary  organization.  The 
people  of  the  valley  were  at  loggerheads.  Litigation  over  conflicting 
claims  to  an  inadequate  water  supply  was  the  order  of  the  day.  People 
were  suspicious  of  each  other,  and,  above  all,  discouraged.  In  the  streets 
of  Phoenix  there  were  almost  daily  auction  sales  of  household  goods  by 
ranchers  who  were  selling  the  newer  lands  for  pitifully  small  prices  and 
moving  away.  To  weld  the  warring  elements  into  a  cohesive  organiza- 
tion ;  to  infuse  a  belief  in  the  possibility  of  team  work  by  the  whole 
valley;  and  to  create  enthusiasm  and  a  spirit  of  cooperation,  was  an  under- 
taking of  such  magnitude  that  perhaps  not  more  than  a  dozen  citizens 
stuck  steadily  to  the  task.  In  this  corporal's  guard,  Mr.  Fowler  was  an 
indefatigable  leader.  Always  good-humored  and  tactful,  always  patient  and 
optimistic,  he  was  a  restless  peacemaker.  While  large  credit  belongs  to 
not  a  few  other  public-spirited  citizens,  it  is  not  invidious  to  say  that,  so 
far  as  the  work  of  promotion  was  concerned,  first  credit  belongs  to  B.  A. 
Fowler." 

Fowler  is  a  Director  of  the  Phoenix  Title  and  Trust  Company ; 
Vice-President  of  the  National  Conservation  Congress,  and  of 
the  Rivers  and  Harbors  Congress.  He  has  been  President  of 
the  Arizona  Agricultural  Association  and  of  the  Phoenix 
Board  of  Trade;  and  Vice-President  of  the  American  Forestry 
Association  and  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Congress. 

In  1907  he  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  16th,  and  in  1908 
Secretary  of  the  17th  National  Irrigation  Congress.  In  1909, 
he  was  elected  at  Spokane,  Wash.,  with  practical  unanimity, 
President  of  the  18th  National  Irrigation  Congress.  The  honor 
came  to  him  entirely  unsought  and  unsolicited.     In  September, 


144  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

1910,  he  was  elected  at  Pueblo,  Colo.,  President  of  the  19th 
Irrigation  Congress,  which  convened  in  Chicago,  111.,  where  he 
was  succeeded  as  President  by  United  States  Senator  Francis  G. 
Newlands,  Yale  '67.  Also  at  Chicago,  in  appreciation  of  his 
services  as  a  presiding  officer  the  year  before,  a  delegation  of 
Pueblo,  Colo.,  citizens  presented  him  with  a  large  gavel,  made 
in  Colorado  of  Colorado  wood  and  beautifully  mounted  with 
Colorado  embossed  gold  and  silver,  a  rare  gift  which  Fowler 
prizes  highly.  '' 

He  was  the  first,  and  for  four  years,  President  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities  of  Phoenix,  organized  in  1907.  In  April,  1907, 
he  was  Chairman  of  a  Subscription  Committee,  which  organized 
an  eleven  day  Y.  M.  C.  A.  campaign  and  raised  funds  totalling 
$103,000  in  a  city  of  12,000  population,  for  a  beautiful  build- 
ing completed  in  January,  191 1.  He  was  President  of  this 
Association  from  1908  to  19 14. 

Referring  to  his  interest  in  the  work  of  this  Association,  he 
says  in  a  recent  letter:  "In  my  small  circle,  I  am  endeavoring 
to  do  what  I  can,  in  the  few  years  of  life  that  are  left  to  me, 
for  the  uplift  of  the  community  in  which  I  live,  as  every 
honest,  public-spirited  man  should  do,  regardless  of  politics  or 
denominational  preferences." 

Fowler  is  the  first  President  of  the  Arizona  Yale  Alumni 
Association,  organized  in  November,  1913.  He  says,  "I  was 
chosen  because  the  boys  wanted  an  antique."  Five  years  ago 
at  the  first  meeting  of  the  Arizona  Harvard  Alumni  Association, 
Fowler  was  invited  to  be  present,  and,  being  the  oldest  Yale 
graduate  in  the  vicinity,  the  Harvard  boys  made  him  an 
Honorary  member. 

He  was  married  October  17,  1888,  to  Ella  Frances  Quinby 
of  Medford,  Mass. 


Joseph  Warren  Greene 

Son  of  Joseph  W.  and  Mary  A.  (Smith)  Greene. 

Joseph  W.  Greene  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  November  2, 
1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  James  D.  Clark  of  that 
city.  He  was  graduated  from  Yale  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank- 
in  scholarship. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES 


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In  May,  1870,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  the 
Columbia  College  Law  School,  and  in  1871  attended  university 
lectures  in  Braunschweig,  Germany.  Since  1872  he  has  been 
practicing  law  in  New  York  City.  His  office  at  present  is  at 
in  Broadway.  Greene  is  a  Director  in  the  Home  Life  Insurance 
Company  and  in  the  Niagara  Fire  Insurance  Company;  a 
Trustee  of  the  South  Brooklyn  Savings  Institution ;  a  member 
of  the  Executive  and  Law  Committees  of  the  New  York  Civil 


Service  Reform  Association;  and  was  for  some  years  a  Vestry- 
man in  the  Holy  Trinity  Church.  He  was  formerly  one  of  the 
Board  of  Commissioners  for  the  Improvement  of  Brooklyn 
Heights ;  a  member  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission  of  the  old 
City  of  Brooklyn;  a  Director  in  the  Brooklyn  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  Since  1900  he  has  been  Class  Agent  for 
the  Yale  University  Alumni  Fund. 

In  1896  he  was  nominated  for  Supreme  Court  Justice  on  an 
independent  citizens'  ticket.  The  purpose  in  putting  up  the 
ticket  was  to  defeat  the  candidate  of  an  odious  political  ring. 
This  was  accomplished,  but,  as  was  expected,  the  candidate  of 
the  other  regular  party  was  elected. 


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The  summer  of  1903  he  spent  with  his  son  Herbert  and  his 
daughter  in  Europe,  visiting  North  Wales,  Scotland,  the  English 
lakes,  and  the  cathedral  and  university  towns. 

He  was  married  October  20,  1874,  to  Julia  S.  Sherman,  at 
Brooklyn  Heights,  and  has  four  living  children :  Joseph  Warren, 
born  February  22,  1876;  James  Taylor,  born  February  24,  1877; 
Herbert  Gouverneur,  born  November  6,  1881  ;  Julia  Sherman, 
born  April  28,  1885.     One  child,  Katharine,  died  in  infancy. 

Joseph  Warren  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1899, 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  New  York  City,  and  is  now  connected 
with  the  real  estate  department  of  the  New  York  Telephone 
Company. 

James  Taylor  is  engaged  in  farming  at  WTeybridge,  Vt. 

Herbert  Gouverneur  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1903  and  is  now  in  the  employ  of  the  Telephone  Company  in 
New  York  City. 


*Ira  Cole  Hall 

His  father,  John  C.  Hall,  was  born  February  1,  1808,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 21,  1882.  He  was  by  occupation  a  farmer,  and  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Xew  York  State  Assembly  for  Seneca  County.  His  mother,  Adelia 
(Cole)  Hall,  born  September  19,  1819,  died  February  25,  1897,  was 
descended  through  her  father  from  Daniel  Cole,  who  came  to  Plymouth 
from  England  in  1632,  and  through  her  mother,  from  Elder  William 
Brewster,  and  Stephen  Hopkins  of  the  Mayflower. 

Ira  C  Hall  was  born  in  Covert,  Seneca  County,  N.  Y.,  October 
9,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Trumansburgh  Academy. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee,  and  rowed 
in  the  Varuna  shell  in  Sophomore  year. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Covert  and  was  engaged  in 
farming  and  stock  dealing,  until  1871,  when  he  removed  to 
Farmer  Village  (now  Interlaken),  a  village  in  the  town  of 
Covert  three  miles  north  of  his  birthplace,  where  with  his  father 
he  opened  a  coal  and  grain  business,  and  was  engaged  in  buying 
and  shipping  farm  products.  This  business  he  conducted  for 
thirty  years.  For  several  years  he  served  also  as  Station  Agent 
on  the  Geneva,  Ithaca  &  Sayre  Railway.  In  1904  he  was  elected 
to  the  Board  of  Supervisors  and  served  four  years,  during  the 


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last  two  being  Chairman  of  the  Board.     He  was  Trustee  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church. 

He  was  married  to  Caroline  Frances,  daughter  of  Milo  V.  and 
Druzilla  (Hopkins)  Cole,  October  6,  1869,  at  Covert,  and  had 
three  children:  Wallace  Stowell,  born  May  19,  1872,  died 
young;  Alice  Louise,  born  November  2,  1876;  John  Wilbur, 
born  October  9,  1879. 


Alice  Louise  was  married  December  25,  1903,  to  Dr.  Walter 
D.  Hopkins,  a  teacher  of  Latin  in  the  Boys'  High  School, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

John  Wilbur  was  married  September  1,  1906,  to  Mrs.  Edith 
Penn  of  Syracuse,  and  is  now  a  salesman  for  Taggart  Brothers 
Company,  manufacturers  of  rope  papers,  flour  and  cement  bags. 
He  is  located  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Ira  C.  Hall  died  of  neuralgia  of  the  heart  at  his  home  in 
Interlaken,  April  27,  1908,  at  the  age  of  sixty-one  years.  Funeral 
services  were  held  Thursday,  April  30,  and  burial  was  in  Lake 
View  Cemetery,  with  Masonic  services. 

Mrs.  Hall  resides  at  Interlaken,  N.  Y. 


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♦William  Abbott  Hamilton 

Son  of  Robert  P.  Hamilton,  M.D.,  and  Jane  L.   (Abbott)   Hamilton. 

William  A.  Hamilton  was  born  in  Chicago,  111.,  August  31, 
1848,  and  came  to  college  from  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  to 
which  place  the  family  had  removed  in  1854.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  at  Williston  Seminary. 

After  graduating  at  Yale,  he  returned  to  Saratoga  Springs, 
where  he  was  employed  for  several  years  as  bookkeeper.  He 
subsequently  studied  medicine  and  in  1876  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Xew  York 
City.  He  was  House  Physician  at  Bellevue  Hospital' from  1876 
till  1878,  when  he  established  himself  in  his  profession  at  Minne- 
apolis, Minn.  He  died  in  that  city,  October  21,  1881.  In  his 
brief  practice  of  three  years  there,  he  gained  the  confidence  of 
a  growing  circle  of  friends  and  the  respect  of  other  physicians. 

In  presenting  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Bachelor's  Club 
of  Minneapolis,  on  the  day  after  his  death,  Mr.  Riley  said: 


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"I  cannot  refrain,  as  I  offer  these  resolutions,  from  remarking  how  inade- 
quate any  such  expression  must  be  as  a  full  representation  of  the  pro- 
found sorrow  with  which  we  take  leave  to-day  of  all  that  is  mortal  of 
our  dear  friend,  Dr.  Hamilton.  Never  can  we  recall  his  memory  without 
a  grateful  appreciation  of  his  excellence.  He  was  so  truly  manly,  so 
honorable,  so  upright,  so  courteous,  so  kindly,  so  intelligent  and  accom- 
plished, and  withal  so  conspicuously  modest,  that  the  loss  of  his  presence 
and  influence  we  must  all  deeply  feel.  No  casual  observer  could  fail  to 
perceive  how  estimable  a  man  he  was  in  all  the  relationships  of  his  life. 
But  to  us,  who  have  from  time  to  time  been  closely  brought  into  contact 
with  him  as  a  member  and  officer  of  our  association,  his  memory  will 
always  be  endeared  as  we  recall  his  quiet  humor,  his  constant  cheerful- 
ness, the  intelligence  and  clear-sightedness  of  his  conversation,  the  kindly 
benevolence  of  his  countenance,  and  the  invariable  dignity  of  his  whole 
demeanor.  Having  lost  him,  it  may  be  a  solace  to  reflect  that  he  must 
have  known  how  much  respected,  valued  and  loved  he  was,  and  that  dur- 
ing the  years  in  which  he  was  among  us,  he  had  found  in  this  association 
friendships  which  warmed  and  cheered  his  life.  And  to-day,  if  he  can  look 
down  from  the  mysterious  world  to  which  he  has  gone,  as  we  are  assem- 
bled in  this  room  fragrant  with  his  memory,  he  will  discern  hearts  sincerely 
mourning  him  because  they  have  sincerely  honored  and  loved  him." 


*Oscar  Harger 

On  his  father's  side  of  Huguenot  descent,  was  the  son  of  Alfred  and 
Ruth  (Beardsley)  Harger,  and  brother  of  Charles  Harger  (Ph.B.  Yale 
i857). 

Oscar  Harger  was  born  in  Oxford,  Conn.,  January  12,  1843, 
and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institution 
in  Suffield,  where  he  was  a  classmate  of  Coats  and  John  Lewis. 

As  an  undergraduate  he  excelled  in  all  studies,  but  was  espe- 
cially fond  of  mathematics  and  natural  science.  Even  then  he 
had  the  spirit  of  an  investigator,  and  was  never  willing  to  accept 
anything  as  true  until  he  had  himself  proved  it.  Many  of  the 
class  will  recall  the  experiments  in  physics  which  he  performed 
in  his  room,  48  South  Middle  College,  in  our  Junior  year.  He 
was  obliged  to  practice  the  greatest  economy,  and  supported 
himself  in  part  by  doing  mathematical  work  under  the  direction 
of  Professor  Newton,  chiefly  upon  valuation  tables  for  the  Insur- 
ance Department  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

In  the  fall  of  1868  he  took  up  the  study  of  zoology  with  Pro- 
fessor  Verrill.      Two    years    later    he    was    made   Assistant    in 


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Palaeontology  in  Yale  College.  From  this  time  until  his  death 
he  worked  chiefly  with  Professor  Marsh  in  palaeontology,  and  had 
a  general  supervision  of  the  work  in  Peabody  Museum  in  that 
department,  but  continued  also  his  studies  in  zoology,  as  time  and 
health  allowed.  He  went  with  Professor  Marsh  on  his  geological 
expeditions  in  1871  and  1873.  In  the  summer  of  1872,  in  com- 
pany with  Professor  S.  I.  Smith,  he  visited  St.  George's  Banks 
in  the  Coast  Survey  Steamer  "Bachc,"  on  a  dredging  expedition. 


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the  results  of  which  were  published  by  Professor  Smith  and  him- 
self in  the  Transactions  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  for  1874. 
With  the  exception  of  these  scientific  excursions  he  worked  for 
eighteen  years  without  interruption,  except  during  the  college 
vacations,  in  his  laboratory  in  the  Peabody  Museum,  and  even 
during  a  considerable  part  of  the  vacations  he  visited  the  museum 
daily  to  oversee  the  work  going  on.  How  much  his  investigations 
added  to  the  world's  knowledge  will  never  be  known. 

The  first  symptoms  of  heart  trouble  were  noticed  in  1879. 
Classmates  who  saw  him  at  the  annual  gatherings  of  the  Alumni, 
where  he  was  always  present  to  welcome  any  member  of  '68,  were 


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pained  to  observe  a  steady  decline  in  his  strength  from  year  to 
year.  Toward  the  close  of  his  life  he  became  quite  feeble,  so  that 
he  reached  his  room,  on  the  second  floor  of  the  museum,  with 
much  difficulty,  and  was  obliged  to  rest  often  on  the  way.  He 
continued  his  work,  however,  almost  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  on  Sunday,  November  6,  1887,  at  his  home, 
14  University  Place.  Funeral  services  were  held  at  the  house 
on  the  Tuesday  following,  the  Rev.  E.  S.  Lines,  and  his  classmate 
and  friend  Professor  Beckwith,  officiating. 

Harger  was  an  investigator,  and  his  achievements  were  of  such 
a  character  that  a  proper  estimate  of  their  value  can  be  given 
only  by  those  who  wrere  co-laborers  with  him  in  the  same  depart- 
ment. An  account  of  his  life  and  work  by  Professor  S.  I.  Smith, 
for  fifteen  years  his  colleague  and  companion,  and  his  most  intimate 
friend,  was  printed  in  the  American  Journal  of  Science  for  May, 
1888. 

He  was  married,  May  13,  1875,  to  Jessie  Craig  of  New  Haven. 

His  published  papers  are  included  under  fourteen  titles.  Sev- 
eral of  these  were  contributions  by  him  to  articles  written  by 
Professor  Smith,  or  Professor  Verrill. 

Descriptions  of  new  North  American  Myriapods.  Brief  contributions 
to  zoology  from  the  Museum  of  Yale  College.  No.  XXIII.  Amcr. 
Jour.  Sci.,  Ill,  iv,  pp.  117-121,  pi.  2,  August,  1872. 

On  the  sexes  of  Sphaeroma.    Amer.  Jour.  Sci,  III,  v,  p.  314,  April,  1873. 

[Isopoda,  pp.  569-573,  pH-  5,  6.]  Catalogue  of  the  marine  invertebrate 
animals  of  the  southern  coast  of  New  England,  and  adjacent  waters. 
By  A.  E.  Verrill,  S.  I.  Smith,  and  Oscar  Harger.  Report  U.  S.  Commis- 
sioner Fish  and  Fisheries,  part  I,  pp.  295-778,  pll.  1-38,  1874. 

Notice  of  a  new  fossil  Spider  from  the  Coal  Measures  of  Illinois. 
Amcr.  Jour.  Sci.,  Ill,  vii,  pp.  219-223,  figure,  March,  1874. 

On  a  new  genus  of  Asellidae.  Amer.  Jour.  Sci.,  Ill,  vii,  pp.  601-602, 
June,  1874. 

Report  on  the  dredgings  in  the  region  of  St.  George's  Banks  in  1872. 
By  S.  I.  Smith  and  O.  Harger.  Trans.  Conn.  Acad.,  iii,  pp.  1-57,  pll.  1-8, 
August,  1874. 

[Descriptions  of  Asellus  communis,  Asellopsis,  and  Asellopsis  tenax,  pp. 
657-661,  pi.  1,  figures  3,  4.]  Crustacea  of  the  fresh  waters  of  the  United 
States.  By  Sidney  I.  Smith.  Report  U.  S.  Commissioner  Fish  and 
Fisheries,  part  ii,  pp.  637-665,  pll.  1-3,  1874. 

Description  of  Mancasellus  brachyurus,  a  new  fresh  water  Isopod. 
Brief  contributions  to  zoology  from  the  Museum  of  Yale  College.  No. 
XXXVII.     Amer.  Jour.  Sci.,  Ill,  xi,  pp.  304-305,  April,  1876. 

Descriptions  of  new  genera  and  species  of  Isopoda,  from  New  England 
and  adjacent  regions.     Brief  contributions  to  zoology  from  the  Museum 


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of  Yale  College,  Xo.  XXXVIII.  Amer.  Jour.  Sci.,  Ill,  xv,  pp.  373-379, 
May,  1878. 

[List  of  Isopoda,  p.  6.]  Preliminary  check-list  of  the  marine  inverte- 
brata  of  the  Atlantic  coast,  from  Cape  Cod  to  the  Gulf  of  the  St.  Lawrence. 
By  A.  E.  Verrill.     New  Haven,  June,  1879. 

Notes  on  New  England  Isopoda.  Proc.  U.  S.  National  Mus.,  ii,  pp. 
157-165,  November,  1879. 

Report  on  the  marine  Isopoda  of  New  England  and  adjacent  waters. 
Report  U.  S.  Commissioner  Fish  and  Fisheries,  part  vi,  pp.  297-462,  pll. 
1-13,  1880. 

[Isopoda,  p.  450.]  Preliminary  notice  of  the  Crustacea  dredged,  in  64 
to  325  fathoms  off  the  south  coast  of  New  England,  by  the  United  States 
Fish  Commission  in  1880.  By  S.  I.  Smith.  Proc.  U.  S.  National  Mus., 
iii,  pp.  413-452,  January,  1881. 

Report  on  the  results  of  dredging,  under  the  supervision  of  Alexander 
Agassiz,  on  the  east  coast  of  the  United  States,  during  the  summer  of 
1880,  by  the  U.  S.  Coast  Survey  Steamer  "Blake,"  Commander  J.  R. 
Bartlett,  U.  S.  N.,  commanding,  XXIII.  Report  on  the  Isopoda.  Bull. 
Mus.  Comp.  Zobl,  xi,  No.  4,  pp.  91-104,  pll.  1-4,  September,  1883. 

Mrs.  Harger  was  a  valuable  assistant  of  her  husband  in  much 
of  his  scholarly  work.  The  following  sketch  is  furnished  by 
Miss  M.  Louise  Greene: 

"Mr.  Harger,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  had  just  finished  his  work  as 
the  authority  for  the  terms  in  palaeontology  to  be  found  in  the  Inter- 
national edition  of  Webster's  Dictionary.  Much  of  the  revision  for  that 
edition  was  done  in  New  Haven.  Three  weeks  after  Mr.  Harger's  death, 
Mrs.  Harger  joined  the  editorial  staff  for  the  cross-reference  work. 
Some  three  years  later,  upon  the  completion  of  the  revision,  she  refused 
an  excellent  offer  of  similar  work  because  it  would  take  her  away  from 
home. 

"Mrs.  Harger  had  been  a  student  at  the  Yale  Art  School,  entering 
October  1,  1880,  and  receiving,  as  was  then  the  custom,  her  certificate 
upon  completing  the  course,  June  1,  1883.  She  returned  for  graduate 
work  during  that  and  the  following  year. 

"At  the  close  of  the  dictionary  days,  it  was  Mrs.  Harger's  desire  to 
go  abroad  to  complete  her  art  studies,  but  her  mother,  then  nearing 
seventy,  felt  herself  too  old  for  such  a  journey.  Mrs.  Harger  gave  up 
temporarily  her  wish,  and  entered  the  Yale  Library.  There,  as  she  spoke 
German,  read  French,  and  in  addition  to  her  knowledge  of  botany  and 
of  Mr.  Harger's  subjects,  knew  also  enough  of  Latin,  Italian,  Old  French, 
Dutch,  and  even  Scandivanian,  for  the  cataloguing  of  books  in  these 
languages,  she  spent  eighteen  years  of  active  service.  Often  she  was 
called  upon  for  fine  penmanship  and  drawing,  as  in  the  copying  of  some 
old  script  or  rare  broadside.  She  had  also  done  considerable  genealogical 
work.     She  was  happiest  when  historical  or  art  books  came  to  her  to  be 


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catalogued.  She  thoroughly  enjoyed  the  nature  of  her  work,  but  found 
it  very  confining,  and,  as  the  years  wore  on,  she  missed  more  and  more 
the  freer  outdoor  life  to  which  she  had  been  earlier  accustomed. 

"At  no  time  did  she  wholly  give  up  the  art  interest  which  had  been 
hers  from  childhood.  Vacations  gave  some  opportunity  for  color  work, 
and  winter  evenings  a  little  time  for  black  and  white.  She  determined 
to  hold  herself  in  readiness  to  return  to  some  field  of  art.  When  interest 
in  the  ivory  miniature  sprang  up  in  America,  she  devoted  every  spare 
moment  to  perfecting  herself  in  its  technique.  For  a  number  of  years 
she  exhibited  in  the  New  Haven  Paint  and  Clay  Club — of  which  she 
was  a  member — both  water-color  and  pastel  work  of  excellence,  as  well 
as  miniatures.  That  the  latter  were  successively  hung  at  the  Annual 
Exhibition  in  New  York  of  the  American  Society  of  Miniature  Painters, 
with  their  exacting  standards,  speaks  for  her  technique  and  excellence. 

"Leaving  the  Yale  Library  some  four  years  before  her  death,  Mrs. 
Harger  devoted  herself  to  miniature  painting.  Her  greatest  pleasure 
was  in  the  spontaneous  tributes  to  her  skill  in  reproducing  personality, 
faithful  in  line  and  character. 

"Comrade  in  his  work  and  recreation,  and,  like  him,  brave,  sunny, 
unflinching  in  her  years  of  labor  and  undaunted  in  her  year  of  peril, 
Jessie  Craig  Harger,  widow  of  Oscar  Harger,  after  months  of  severe 
and  painful  illness,  died  September  2,  1913,  of  malignant  inflammation 
of  the  pancreas." 

Horace  Adams  Hicks 

Son  of  Horace  P.  and  Susan  (Adams)  Hicks. 

Horace  A.  Hicks  was  born  October  7,  1844,  in  Charlton,  Mass. 
He  came  to  college  from  Worcester,  Mass.,  having  been  prepared 
at  the  Worcester  High  School. 

After  graduation  he  went  at  once  into  business.  For  several 
years  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  pianos  in  Boston, 
but  in  1895  ne  removed  to  Spencer,  Mass.,  and  established  him- 
self there  as  a  manufacturer  of  carriages,  in  which  business 
he  is  still  engaged. 

He  was  married  in  Spencer  in  1873  to  Mrs.  Helen  J.  Caswell 
of  Lisbon,  Vt.,  and  by  this  marriage  had  two  children,  one  of 
whom  died  young.  A  daughter,  Susan  Hicks,  is  living  with 
her  father  in  Spencer. 

Mrs.  Helen  J.  C.  Hicks  died  June  26,  1881,  and  he  was  again 
married,  April  8,  1888,  to  Josephine  A.  Green  of  Dorchester, 
Mass. 


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Beach  Hill 

Son  of  Edward  and  Cornelia  (Beach)  Hill.  Edward  Hill,  his  father, 
kept  a  well-equipped  country  store  in  Easton,  Conn.  He  was  a  land  sur- 
veyor, settled  estates,  and  held  about  all  the  offices  of  a  country  town. 
He  was  known  by  the  title  of  "Squire  Hill."  Though  not  a  lawyer,  he 
was  a  good  judge  of  law  and  had  a  good  library,  kept  in  a  room  in  his 
house  called  "The  Office."  People  came  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and 
night,  even  from  long  distances,  to  get  his  advice.  He  never  had  a  law- 
suit of  his  own,  but  conducted  cases  in  court  for  others  and  seemed  to 
know  how  a  case  should  be  conducted  in  order  to  win.  Mr.  Hill  was  strict, 
but  perfectly  fair  in  the  discipline  of  his  children.  A  younger  son  had 
the  habit  of  getting  home  late  from  school.  The  father  said  to  him: 
"Young  man,  which  would  you  prefer — to  come  straight  home  from  school, 
or  take  a  good  whipping?"  He  answered:  "I  prefer  a  good  whipping." 
The  father  did  the  job  with  a  whip  that  had  merit  in  it,  and  thereafter  the 
son  claimed  the  right  to  get  home  from  school  when  he  pleased,  and  his 
claim  was  allowed. 


Beach  Hill  was  born  at  Easton,  Conn.,  August  26,  1839.  He 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Easton  Academy,  entered  with  '63, 
and  remained  with  that  Class  till  the  second  term  of  Sophomore 
year.      In    1862    he    enlisted    in    the   Twenty-third    Connecticut 


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Volunteer  Infantry  and  served  in  Louisiana  under  General 
Banks  till  mustered  out  at  the  close  of  his  term  of  service.  He 
joined  '68  in  September,  1865.  During  the  first  term  of  Senior 
year  he  got  leave  of  absence  from  college  and  opened  an 
academy  at  Newtown,  Conn.,  under  unusually  favorable  cir- 
cumstances. At  the  opening  of  the  winter  term  he  employed 
a  graduate  of  Yale,  '67,  to  take  charge  of  the  school  till 
July,  returned  to  college  and  graduated  with  his  class  at 
Commencement. 

After  graduation  he  again  became  Principal  of  the  academy  at 
Newtown,  where  he  continued  four  years.  During  this  period 
he  was  married.  After  two  years  more  of  teaching,  this  time 
at  Easton  Academy,  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Trumbull,  Conn., 
with  the  idea  of  establishing  a  boarding  and  day  school.  After 
a  few  years  of  this  experience,  he  rented  his  farm  and  taught 
six  years  as  Principal  of  a  select  high  school  in  Bridgeport.  He 
greatly  enjoyed  the  life  of  a  teacher,  and  has  prepared  many 
boys  for  college. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  dated  February  10,  1913,  he  wrote: 

"I  am  living  on  my  farm  in  Trumbull.  My  daughter  Edith  keeps  house 
for  me,  and  my  son  Wallace  manages  the  farm.  I  often  think  that  almost 
everybody  has  a  call  to  come  back  to  the  land.  If  you  seek  the  favor  of 
Mother  Earth  in  good  earnest,  she  will  respond  with  much  comfort  and 
blessing. 

"I  belong  to  the  Baptist  Church  in  Stepney,  and  have  charge  of  the 
Bible  Class.  I  have  been  a  teacher  of  the  Bible  in  city  or  town  for  a 
great  many  years.  My  experience  is  that  the  Bible  is  to  the  wayfarer  who 
seeks  another  and  better  country  what  the  'old  oaken  bucket'  on  the 
farm  used  to  be  to  the  thirsty  traveler." 

He  was  married  at  Stepney,  Conn.,  February  3,  1869,  to  Mary 
Leavenworth,  and  has  had  four  children:  Ina,  born  at  Monroe, 
Conn.,  February  4,  1870,  died  August  4  of  the  same  year; 
Edith  May,  born  March  25,  1873,  at  Long  Hill;  Bertha,  born 
December  1,  1874,  at  Long  Hill,  died  March  14,  1877;  Wallace 
Leavenworth,  born  October  28,  1878,  at  Bridgeport. 

Wallace  was  married  to  Grace  Frances  Hall  at  Bridgeport, 
June  26,  1908,  and  has  one  son,  Carroll  Leavenworth,  born  July 
4,  1910,  who  is  expecting  to  enter  Yale  somewhere  about  1930. 

Mrs.  Mary  Leavenworth  Hill  died  January  18,  1903. 


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*  James  Winthrop  Holcombe 

Eldest  son  of  James  Huggins  and  Emily  Merrill  (Johnson)  Holcombe, 
and  brother  of  John  Marshall  Holcombe  (Yale  College  1869). 

James  W.  Holcombe  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  February  3, 
1846.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  Grammar 
School,  and  spent  Freshman  year  at  Trinity  College,  entering 
the  Class  of  '68  at  Yale  in  September,  1865. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  private  tutor  to  young 
men  preparing  for  college,  at  the  same  time  devoting  considerable 
attention  to  German  and  French  and  translating  for  the  press 
from  both  languages.  September  2,  1871,  he  started  on  a  tour 
around  the  world,  passing  through  China,  India,  Egypt,  the  Holy 
Land,  Turkey,  Greece,  Italy,  and  other  parts  of  Europe,  and 
returning  home  in  the  summer  of  1872.  The  academical  year 
1873-74  was  spent  in  study  at  the  University  of  Leipsic,  and 
from  this  time  till  his  death  he  lived  in  Europe,  occupied  with 
artistic  and  literary  pursuits.  From  1879  to  1889  he  spent  most 
of  the  time  in  Italy,  making,  however,  several  journeys  to  Eng- 
land and  various  parts  of  the  Continent.     Until   1886  his  resi- 


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dence  was  on  the  island  of  Capri,  and  after  that  date  at  Naples. 
From  1889  to  1899  he  resided  in  England,  France  and  Spain. 
The  last  ten  years  of  his  life  (1899-1909)  he  spent  mostly  on 
the  island  of  Capri. 

In  1886  at  London  and  in  1887  at  Florence,  he  received  medals 
for  artistic  work.  Of  his  magazine  articles  the  following  are 
especially  worthy  of  mention: 

"Campanian  Originalities,"  a  series  of  letters  from  Naples  for  the 
Hartford  Times. 

"Description  of  the  Eighteen-hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Destruction 
of  Pompeii,"    an  illustrated  article  for  Harper's  Weekly. 

"Arrival  at  Naples  of  Professor  Nordenskiold's  ship  Vega  from  her 
Arctic  voyage,"  another  illustrated  article  for  the  same  paper. 

"The  Model  Performances  of  German  Dramatic  Stars,"  for  the  New 
York  Dramatic  Magazine. 

"Description  of  Street-life  at  Naples"  (illustrated),  for  the  London 
Graphic. 

He  also  published: 

"Baden,"  translated  from  the  German,  and  "In  search  of  the  Cast- 
aways,"   translated  from  the  French. 

James  W.  Holcombe  died  of  pneumonia  at  Capri,  June  26, 
1909,  at  the  age  of  sixty- three  years. 


Henry  Freeman  Homes 

Son  of  Henry  A.  Homes  (B.A.  Amherst  1830;  M.A.  Yale  1834;  LL.D. 
Columbia  1873)  and  Anna  Whiting  (Heath)  Homes. 

In  response  to  the  class  Secretary's  request  for  some  informa- 
tion as  to  his  ancestors.  Homes  writes  as  follows: 

"My  father  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Rev.  William  Homes  and  of 
Josiah  Franklin  the  father  of  Benjamin  Franklin.  William  Homes 
received  the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  the  University  of  Edinburgh  in  1693  and 
came  to  America  in  1714  and  was  settled  in  Massachusetts. 

"Capt.  Robert  Homes,  his  son,  married  in  1716  Mary  Franklin,  a  sister 
of  Benjamin  Franklin.  The  latter  in  his  autobiography  and  letters  makes 
frequent  mention  of  Captain  Homes  and  his  wife.  My  father's  first 
maternal  ancestor  in  this  country  was  Samuel  Freeman,  who  came  from 
England  in  1630,  and  his  descendants  Enoch  Freeman  and  Judge  Samuel 


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Freeman  were  very  prominent  and  public-spirited  citizens  of  Portland, 
Maine. 

"My  father  was  a  missionary  in  Turkey,  from  1836  to  1851,  when  he 
became  Charge  d'Affaires  of  the  U.  S.  at  Constantinople.  From  1854 
to  the  time  of  his  death,  Nov.  3,  1887,  he  was  Librarian  of  the  New  York 
State  Library  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  While  a  divinity  student  at  Yale,  my 
father  had  rooms  with  Noah  Porter,  late  President  of  Yale  College,  on 
the  corner  of  Chapel  and  Temple  Streets. 

"My  mother  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Whiting,  who  came 
from  Lincolnshire,  England,  in  1638  and  received  a  grant  of  land  in  Lynn, 
Mass. 


'"Colonel  Daniel  Whiting  of  the  third  generation  was  born  in  1732.  He 
served  in  the  French  and  Colonial  wars  and  did  valiant  service  through- 
out the  Revolutionary  War,  receiving  high  commendation  from  General  La 
Fayette.  My  mother's  mother  was  a  descendant  of  Ebenezer  Newell, 
who  came  from  Oxfordshire,  England,  to  Dedham,  Mass.,  before  1690. 
My  mother's  paternal  grandfather  was  Ebenezer  Heath,  born  1765,  and 
his  estate  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  is  still  occupied  by  his  descendants.  Her 
earliest  paternal  ancestor  in  this  country  was  William  Heath,  who  came 
from  England  in  1632.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  Major  General  William 
Heath,  a  prominent  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War." 


Henry  F.  Homes  was  born  April  20,  1847,  in  Constantinople, 
Turkey,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Albany  Academy. 


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After  graduation,  from  October,  1868,  until  January,  1871,  he 
was  employed  in  the  New  York  State  Insurance  Department  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.  From  1871  to  1878  he  was  a  Consulting  Actuary 
in  New  York  City.  In  1879  ne  was  graduated  at  the  Columbia 
College  Law  School,  and  has  since  been  in  the  practice  of  law, 
first  in  Albany,  where  he  remained  till  1885,  and  since  then  con- 
tinuously in  New  York  City. 


*Edward  Frederick  Hopke 

Son  of  Eide  F.  and  Anna  C.  (Von  Essen)  Hopke.  Both  parents  came 
from  Hannover,  Germany,  and  after  a  residence  of  a  few  years  in  New 
York  City  removed  to  Hastings,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y. 

Edward  F.  Hopke  was  born  October  29,  1846,  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Commercial  and 
Collegiate  Institute,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

After  graduation  he  studied  one  year  in  the  New  York  Uni- 
versity Law  vSchool,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws 
there  in  1869,  and  began  at  once  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York 
City.     In  1874  he  formed  a  partnership  with  a  law  school  class- 


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mate,  Thomas  L.  Henry,  afterwards  District  Judge  of  New 
Jersey,  under  the  firm  name  of  Henry  &  Hopke,  but  this  part- 
nership was  dissolved  after  a  short  time.  He  was  also  associated 
in  the  practice  of  law  with  Mr.  Cornelius  Hoffman  and  Mr. 
William  Van  Hosen. 

While  a  law  student  in  New  York  he  joined  the  state  militia 
and  rose  to  the  rank  of  Adjutant  of  the  Fifth  Regiment,  which 
was  called  out  by  Governor  Hoffman  and  did  active  service  in 
quelling  the  riot  in  New  York  City  in  1871. 

In  the  spring  of  1880,  on  account  of  ill  health  and  brighter 
business  prospects,  he  went  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  where  for 
six  years  he  was  the  successful  manager  of  a  large  sugar  planta- 
tion, when,  hoping  for  larger  returns,  he  went  to  the  Samoan 
Islands.  This  venture  proved  a  failure,  and  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  located  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  business  for  several  years.  He  subsequently  removed 
to  San  Francisco,  and,  in  company  with  a  younger  brother, 
established  Dye  and  Chemical  Works,  in  the  management  of 
which  they  had  unusual  success. 

In  his  last  letter  to  the  Secretary,  he  wrote : 

"I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  state  that  my  health  is  now  good,  and  that 
business  prospects  are  likewise  bright.  I  fully  expect  to  come  East  again 
some  day,  and  fondly  hope  to  have  the  great  privilege  of  meeting  once 
more  surviving  friends  and  classmates." 

This  hope  was  never  realized.  He  died  suddenly,  of  pneu- 
monia, at  San  Francisco,  December  30,  1904,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-eight  years,  and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  brother  in 
Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery,  San  Mateo,  Cal. 


Robert  Allen  Hume 

Son  of  Rev.  Robert  W.  Hume  (Union  College  1834)  and  Hannah  D. 
(Sackett)  Hume,  and  brother  of  Rev.  Edward  S.  Hume  (Yale  College 
1870). 

Robert  A.  Hume  was  born  in  Bombay,  India,  March  18,  1S47. 
He  came  to  America  in  1855,  resided  several  years  at  Springfield, 
Mass.,  and  completed  his  preparation  for  college  at  Williston 
Seminary. 


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He  won  prizes  in  Composition  and  Declamation  in  Sophomore 
year,  and  in  Debate  during  each  of  the  four  college  years ;  grad- 
uated with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank,  and  was  speaker  at  Junior 
Exhibition  and  Commencement;  was  editor  of  the  Yale  Counint, 
represented  Brothers  as  Orator  at  the  "Statement  of  Facts"  in 
our  Senior  year,  and  was  awarded  the  Clarke  Scholarship  at 
graduation. 

After  graduating  at  Yale,  he  taught  one  year  in  General  Rus- 
sell's Military  School,  New  Haven ;  studied  two  years  in  the  Yale 


Theological  Seminary;  taught  one  year  at  the  Edwards  Place 
School,  Stockbridge,  Mass. ;  studied  one  year  at  the  Theological 
Seminary  at  Andover,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1873 ;  and  then 
taught  another  year  in  New  Haven. 

May  10,  1874,  he  was  ordained  for  the  missionary  work  in 
India,  in  New  Haven,  at  the  Third  Congregational  Church. 
President  Woolsey  preached  the  sermon,  on  'The  Probability 
of  the  Spread  of  Christianity  over  all  the  World."  On  August  11 
of  the  same  year  he  sailed  to  join  the  Maratha  Mission,  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  for  forty  years.  His  work  has  been 
largely  in  connection  with  the  Ahmednagar  Theological  Seminary, 


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for  which,  at  first  as  Dean  and  later  as  President,  he  has  had  the 
main  responsibility.  He  has  also  been  Superintendent  of  a  large 
district  in  which  are  several  schools  and  churches.  He  has  edited 
the  Anglo-Marathi  weekly  newspaper  named  the  Dnyanodaya 
(The  Rise  of  Knowledge),  besides  doing  general  eyangelistic 
work,  mainly  through  the  medium  of  the  Marathi  language. 

In  1885  Hume  returned  to  America  for  a  year's  vacation,  which 
was  prolonged  to  two  by  the  Prudential  Committee  of  the  Ameri- 
can Board,  in  consequence  of  a  few  harmless  words  in  an  after- 
dinner  speech  at  the  Andover  Commencement  in  1886.  While  the 
Prudential  Committee  were  occupied  with  the  "Hume  Contro- 
versy," Hume  himself  was  doing  good  work  for  the  cause  of 
missions,  in  America.  He  labored  unceasingly  among  the 
churches  and  theological  seminaries  in  the  New  England,  Middle 
and  Western  States,  endeavoring  to  awaken  increased  and  more 
intelligent  missionary  interest  and  consecration.  In  June,  1887, 
he  was  sent  back  to  India.  The  Theological  Seminary,  which 
was  closed  when  he  came  to  America  in  1885,  was  reopened,  and 
he  took  up  again  the  work  of  training  native  pastors  and  teachers, 
in  which  he  had  before  been  engaged. 

In  May,  1893,  he  returned  again  to  the  United  States  for  a 
furlough.  He  was  present  at  the  quarter-century  meeting  of 
the  Class,  and  made  an  address  at  the  Alumni  Meeting  on  June 
26.  After  a  year  in  this  country,  he  resumed  his  work  in  India. 
He  came  home  also  on  furlough  in  1904,  and  again  in  1910. 

He  has  been  very  happy  in  his  missionary  work  at  Ahmed- 
nagar,  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles  east  of  Bombay.  Though  his 
most  important  work  was  as  President  of  a  Theological  Seminary, 
yet  a  great  deal  of  miscellaneous  work  came  to  him  as  senior 
missionary  in  a  station  where,  according  to  the  government  census, 
six  per  cent,  of  the  population  of  the  city  were  members  of  his 
mission.  In  the  decade  from  1891  to  1901  the  Christian  com- 
munity of  this  immediate  vicinity  grew  from  less  than  7,000  to 
over  20,000,  that  is,  two  hundred  per  cent. ;  and  he  had  to  build 
a  church  to  seat  thirteen  hundred  in  the  city,  because  such  accom- 
modation was  absolutely  necessary. 

In  the  sad  famine  of  1899- 1900,  he  succeeded  his  brother 
Edward  as  Chairman  of  the  largest  famine  fund  from  America, 
and  Secretary  of  the  second  largest  American  famine  fund,  and 
in  general  they  helped  to  administer  about  one  million  dollars. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  1 63 

His  services  were  recognized  by  the  British  Government,  he  being 
decorated  with  the  Kaiser-i-Hind  gold  medal  in  the  name  of  the 
Queen,  for  public  service. 

Yale  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in 

1895. 

He  has  published  in  English  various  pamphlets,  among  which 
are:  "Is  Christianity  True?" ;  "Theosophy" ;  "Relief  for  Native 
Christians  Married  in  Childhood";  "Christianity  Tested  by 
Reason";  "Marriage  and  Divorce:  How  to  make  the  ideas  and 
customs  of  marriage  among  Indian  Christians  conform  more  and 
more  to  the  Christian  Standard."  Also  articles  on  the  "Mission- 
ary Work  in  India,"  in  the  Missionary  Herald,  1878-88,  numerous 
articles  in  other  religious  papers  in  America,  and  sundry  tracts  in 
Marathi.     He  translated  from  the  English  into  Marathi: 

"The  Ecclesiastical  Polity  of  the  New  Testament." 

The  F.  H.  Revell  Company  has  published  for  him: 

"Missions  from  the  Modern  Point  of  View,"  one  chapter  of  which  has 
recently  been  reprinted  as  a  booklet  entitled  "How  Gangaram  Became 
Acquainted  with  God." 

"An  Interpretation  of  India's  Religious  History,"  a  course  of  lectures 
given  in  many  universities  and  theological  seminaries  during  his  stay  in 
America  in  1910-11. 

In  a  brief  farewell  letter  to  his  many  friends  at  the  close  of  his 
last  furlough,  he  wrote,  under  date  of  April  22,  191 1 : 

"Since  July,  1910,  I  have  been  in  the  United  States,  on  my  fourth  fur- 
lough.    Soon  I  shall  return  to  India  for  a  fifth  period  of  service. 

"I  did  not  feel  the  need  of  rest,  and  therefore  have  not  taken  it  during 
this  furlough.  I  have  tried  to  do  three  things — to  grow,  to  serve,  and  to 
earn  money  for  my  children's  education.  Intercourse  with  many  strong 
men  and  women,  and  attending  exercises  in  educational  institutions  and 
conferences  have  afforded  means  of  growth.  I  have  had  fine  opportuni- 
ties to  serve.  Thus  far  I  have  spoken  in  many  leading  churches,  theo- 
logical seminaries,  universities,  colleges,  and  conferences.  I  have  a 
record  of  two  hundred  and  nine  formal  addresses.  By  July  fifth,  when 
I  sail  from  San  Francisco,  this  number  will  be  materially  increased.  I 
have  been  enabled  to  earn  a  good  amount  for  the  education  of  my 
children. 

"I  am  grateful  for  the  opportunities  enjoyed,  for  helpful  intercourse, 
and  for  courtesies  to  my  family  and  to  myself.  I  hope  to  return  to 
America  in  about  seven  years.     I  go  back  to  India  in  good  health,  arid 


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with  a  profound  conviction  of  the  greatness  and  urgency  of  missionary 
work  in  that  marvelous  country.  I  rejoice  that  churches  and  leaders  in 
the  world  have  a  growing  understanding  of  the  importance  and  value  of 
Missions. 

"With  gratitude  to  my  Father  and  my  friends,  I  go  joyfully  and  hope- 
fully to  my  beloved  land  and  work." 

A 

He  was  married  in  New  Haven,  July  7,  1874,  to  Abbie  Lyon 
Burgess,  by  whom  he  had  four  children,  born  at  Ahmednagar: 
Ruth  Peabody,  June  2,  1875;  Robert  Ernest,  March  20,  1877; 
and  Hannah,  March  11,  1878.  A  son,  Alfred  Penfield,  born 
October  5,  1879,  died  May  6  of  the  following  year. 

His  wife,  Abbie  Burgess  Hume,  died  July  25,  1881,  and  he  was 
again  married,  at  Ahmednagar,  September  7,  1887,  to  Katie  Fair- 
bank,  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  Fairbank  of  the  same  Mission,  and 
has  had  by  this  marriage  four  children :  Wilson  McClaughry, 
born  May  9,  1888;  Walter  Fairbank,  born  March  15,  1890;  Henry 
Woods,  born  November  15,  1895;  Mary  Ballantine,  born  Sep- 
tember 1,  1897. 

His  daughter,  Ruth  Peabody,  was  graduated  from  Wellesley  in 
1897,  studied  medicine  at  the  Woman's  Medical  College  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  took  her  degree  there  in  1902.  She  went  to  India 
in  1903,  and  since  then  has  been  the  physician  in  charge  of  the 
Woman's  Hospital  of  the  American  Board  Mission,  in  Ahmed- 
nagar. 

Robert  Ernest  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1898, 
received  from  Yale  the  degrees  of  M.A.  in  1900  and  Ph.D.  in  1901, 
was  graduated  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1904,  and  in 
October,  1907,  became  a  Missionary  and  Professor  in  the  Theo- 
logical Seminary  at  Ahmednagar,  India.  He  was  soon  trans- 
ferred to  Bombay,  where  for  several  years  he  has  been  editor  of 
the  English  portion  of  the  Mission  paper  for  which  his  grand- 
fathers, father,  and  uncle,  had  done  so  much.  In  November, 
1913,  he  was  elected  to  the  Marcellus  Hartley  Professorship  of 
the  Philosophy  and  History  of  Religion  and  Missions  in  the 
Union  Theological  Seminary  and  arrived  in  New  York  to  enter 
upon  his  work  there,  April  1,  1914.  He  was  married  on  March 
!5>  I9°7*  at  Milltown,  New  Brunswick,  to  Laura  Caswell, 
daughter  of  William  Thomas  Caswell  of  that  place,  and  has  two 
sons,  both  born  in  India:  Robert  Caswell,  April  17,  1908,  and 
Edward  Putnam,  July  14,  191 1. 


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Hannah  was  graduated  from  Wellesley  in  1900,  and  assisted 
her  aunt,  Miss  Sarah  Hume,  in  the  City  Mission  work  of  New 
Haven  for  about  two  years.  October  1,  1903,  she  was  married  in 
New  Haven  to  Rev.  Theodore  Storrs  Lee,  and  went  with  him  to 
the  American  Mission  at  Satara,  Western  India.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lee  had  two  children  born  in  India:  Grace,  October  24,  1906; 
Theodore  Hume,  April  15,  1910.  Mr.  Lee  died  in  191 1  in  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  in  New  York  City.  In  1912  Mrs.  Lee 
returned  with  her  two  little  children  to  her  work  in  Satara. 

Wilson  McClaughry  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1909, 
and  during  the  following  year  was  connected  with  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  work  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  From 
1910  to  1913  he  was  Educational  Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  in  New  Britain,  Conn.  August  20,  191 3, 
he  was  married  in  New  Britain  to  Elizabeth  Cathcart.  He  is  now 
connected  with  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  work  in 
India,  being  stationed  at  Lahore,  Punjab,  North  India. 

Walter  Fairbank  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1912  and  is  studying  in  the  Medical  School  of  Columbia 
University,  with  the  purpose  of  becoming  a  Medical  Missionary. 

Henry  Woods  is  a  student  in  Yale  College,  in  the  Class  of  1916. 


Jonathan  Ingersoll 

Son  of  Hon.  Charles  A.  Ingersoll  (M.A.  Yale  College  1827),  Judge  of 
the  United  States  District  Court  for  the  District  of  Connecticut,  and 
of  Henrietta  (Sidell)  Ingersoll,  and  brother  of  Charles  D.  Ingersoll  (Yale 
College  1864)  and  Thomas  C.  Ingersoll  (Yale  College  1865). 

Jonathan  Ingersoll  was  born  in  New  Haven,  April  23,  1848, 
and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  General  Russell's  Collegiate  and 
Commercial  Institute. 

After  leaving  college  he  spent  a  year  in  the  Law  School  at 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  graduating  in  1869,  and  began  immediately  the 
practice  of  law  in  New  Haven.  From  May,  1873,  to  December, 
1874,  he  was  Executive  Secretary  of  the  State  of  Connecticut. 
He  was  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  for  New  Haven 
County  from  1875  till  1882,  and  Clerk  of  the  same  Court  from 
1882  till  1888.  From  June,  1870,  to  January,  1872,  he  was  mem- 
ber of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Haven. 


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He  removed  from  New  Haven  in  1889,  and  went  to  the  Pacific 
coast.  In  1899  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Railroad  at  Los  Angeles,  California.  From  1902  until  1910  he 
was  in  charge  of  the  Advertising  Department  at  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  now  chief  of  the  Accounting  Department  of  the  Los 
Angeles  office  of  that  road. 

He  was  married  (1)  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  to  Grace  King  Skinner, 
October  6,  1870;    (2)   in  New  York,  March  16,  1889,  to  Alice 


M.  Anderson.  He  has  had  five  children :  Anne,  born  Novem- 
ber 22,  1 87 1,  died  September  19,  1872;  Charles  Anthony,  born 
January  21,  1873,  in  New  Haven ;  Henrietta,  born  August  3,  1874, 
at  Ridgefield,  Conn. ;  Jonathan,  Jr.,  born  February  5,  1876,  at 
New  Haven;  and  Randolph,  born  September  6,  1893,  in 
Orange,  N.  J. 

Charles  Anthony  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1893,  and  is  employed  as  mechanical  engineer  by  the 
Winchester  Repeating  Arms  Company  of  New  Haven.  He  was 
married,  July  8,  1903,  to  Susan  Goodwin  Moody  of  New  Haven, 
and  has  two  children,  Thomas  C.  Ingersoll  and  Grace  Ingersoll. 


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Henrietta  married  Thomas  McDonough  Russell,  son  of  Samuel 
Russell  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  and  resides  in  that  city. 

Jonathan,  Jr.,  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School  in  1896,  and  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Mines 
Finance  Company  of  New  York  City. 

Randolph  is  manager  of  the  branch  office  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Times. 


*Edward  Alexander  Lawrence 

Son  of  Rev.  Professor  Edward  A.  Lawrence  (Dartmouth  College 
1834),  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  East  Windsor  Hill  (now  the 
Hartford  Theological  Seminary),  and  of  Margaret  (Woods)  Lawrence. 

Edward  A.  Lawrence,  our  classmate,  was  born  January  16, 
1847,  at  Marblehead,  Mass.,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 

He  won  the  Runk  Scholarship  in  Freshman  year,  was  awarded 
prizes  in  Composition  and  Debate,  was  one  of  the  speakers  at 
Junior  Exhibition  and  Commencement,  and  was  graduated  with 
High  Oration  rank  in  scholarship. 


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After  leaving  college,  he  spent  one  year  at  Princeton  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  In  the  spring  of  1869  he  went  to  Germany, 
and  was  two  years  in  the  Theological  Department  of  the  Uni- 
versity at  Halle  and  one  year  in  the  University  at  Berlin.  From 
January  until  July,  1873,  he  was  Tutor  in  German  in  Yale 
College. 

He  preached  at  Champlain,  N.  Y.,  for  about  two  years,  and 
in  September,  1875,  was  settled  over  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  In  November,  1883,  leaving  Pough- 
keepsie,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  Plymouth  Church, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  March,  1885.  Then, 
resigning  his  pulpit,  he  started  on  a  mission  tour  around  the 
world,  visiting  Japan,  China,  India  and  Turkey,  and  returning 
to  America  in  December,  1887.  In  1888  he  delivered  a  course 
of  ten  mission  lectures  at  Andover  Seminary,  on  the  "Hyde 
Foundation."  Various  mission  articles  from  his  pen  were  pub- 
lished in  the  Andover  Review  for  1887  and  1888,  and  in  different 
religious  and  secular  papers. 

In  the  fall  of  the  years  1891  and  1892  he  delivered  two  courses, 
of  six  lectures  each,  on  "Modern  Missions  in  the  East,"  before 
the  Yale  Divinity  School;  and  in  the  spring  of  1892  six  of  the 
same  lectures  were  given  at  Beloit  College,  Wis.  In  this  year 
the  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Beloit. 

After  supplying  the  pulpit  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Sing 
Sing,  N.  Y.,  for  one  year  from  May,  1888,  he  accepted  a  call  in 
May,  1889,  from  the  first  Congregational  Church  in  Baltimore, 
Md.,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  on  November  10,  1893. 

His  last  illness  was  brief.  His  health  had  always  been  unusu- 
ally good,  and  a  week  before  his  death  he  had  no  symptoms  of 
disease.  He  complained  of  slight  indisposition  on  Sunday, 
November  5,  but  no  one  anticipated  any  serious  result.  On 
Tuesday  his  physician  became  anxious  about  him  and  called  in 
another  physician  for  consultation,  who,  recognizing  the  serious 
nature  of  his  disease,  advised  that  he  be  taken  at  once  to  the 
hospital.  A  surgical  operation  was  performed,  which  revealed 
a  stage  of  appendicitis  so  advanced  as  to  preclude  the  slightest 
hope.    He  died  on  Friday  morning  at  nine  o'clock. 

His  principal  strength  during  his  pastorate  in  Baltimore 
seemed  to  lie  in  his  ability  to  organize  and  direct  the  social  and 
charitable  work  of  his  people.     Whoever  had  a  plan  of  work  in 


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these  lines  was  sure  to  carry  it  to  him,  and  was  also  sure  to 
come  away  with  many  helpful  suggestions  and  the  assurance  of 
his  cordial  assistance.  In  portions  of  the  city  where  his  sym- 
pathies often  led  him,  there  were  many  Germans,  and  his  fluent 
use  of  their  language  gave  him  large  influence  among  them.  He 
went  into  their  homes  and  talked  freely  and  easily  with  them, 
thus  making  an  opening,  himself,  into  which  he  could  wisely 
direct  the  efforts  of  those  wishing  to  take  up  the  work  after  him. 
Rev.  M.  D.  Babcock  said  at  his  funeral: 

"Dr.  Lawrence  was  a  man  of  marvelous  balance,  a  man  of  grace  and 
of  a  logical  mind.  He  was  a  man  in  whom  the  playfulness  of  child- 
hood blended  with  logic,  all  in  harmony.  He  was  a  friend,  tender, 
responsive,  receptive;  his  smile  will  always  be  to  me  a  beautiful  memory. 
This  man  of  faith  said  at  the  funeral  of  his  father:  'This  is  not  a  home 
of  mourning,  though  mourners  are  here;  this  is  not  the  house  of  death, 
though  death  is  here.     He  lives.'  " 

Rawson  wrote  in  a  private  letter  soon  after  his  death : 

"Lawrence  was  a  man  of  wide  and  catholic  tastes  and  of  unusual  cul- 
ture. He  told  me  that  before  he  went  to  Germany  he  was  determined 
to  acquire  the  language  so  thoroughly  that  he  might  be  able  to  preach 
in  German  without  notes.  Since  graduation  I  have  met  him  from  time 
to  time.  He  visited  me  on  board  the  Minnesota  when  that  large  ship 
poked  her  bow  up  the  Hudson  as  far  as  Poughkeepsie.  He  was  then 
living  opposite  the  town,  like  Montaigne,  in  the  tower  of  a  house  sit- 
uated on  a  high  bluff  above  the  river.  For  extra  professional  reading  he 
was  enjoying  '  'Jevon's  Logic  of  Science.'  Later,  when  I  was  at  the 
Naval  Academy,  he  came  down  to  Annapolis  to  deliver  a  lecture  before 
St.  John's  College  on  Athanasius — a  very  creditable  effort. 

"I  have  thought  of  him  as  having  had  an  ambition  to  fit  himself  for 
any  position  which  the  exigencies  of  his  profession  might  demand.  His 
missionary  tour  around  the  world  is  evidence  of  this.  His  settlement 
alone  among  the  poor  of  Baltimore  in  the  tenement  districts  is  additional 
confirmation  of  unusual  and  sanctified  ambitions. 

"He  was  a  near  neighbor  to  me,  Baltimore  being  only  an  hour's  run 
from  Washington.  I  saw  less  of  him  than  I  hoped  or  desired.  But  I 
knew  he  was  there,  and  I  miss  him.  As  a  class,  I  think  we  have  reason 
to  be  proud  of  him,  his  manliness,  his  culture,  his  unselfishness,  his 
success." 

The  life  of  our  classmate  has  been  delicately  and  lovingly 
portrayed  in  a  memorial  volume,  "Reminiscences  of  Edward  A. 
Lawrence,  Jr.,  by  his  Mother,  Margaret  Woods  Lawrence."  517 
pp.     Published  by  the  Fleming  H.  Revell  Company  in  1900. 


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Frank  Bradley  Lewis 

Son  of  George  T.  and  Mary  (Bradley)  Lewis,  was  born  July 
25,  1844,  in  the  township  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  the  district  that 
is  called  Greenfield,  about  two  miles  northeast  of  Greenfield  Hill. 
The  family  removed  to  Bridgeport  when  he  was  quite  young,  and 
he  received  his  preparation  for  college  in  part  at  the  private 
school  of  the  Rev.  G.  B.  Day  in  that  city,  and  in  part  at  Fairfield 
Academy,  Herkimer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  then  one  of  the  best  of  the  old 
New  York  State  academies.  His  chief  classical  instructor  was 
Albert  B.  Watkins,  a  graduate  of  Amherst. 

After  graduation  he  taught  for  two  years  at  St.  Mark's  School, 
Southboro,  Mass.,  afterwards  attended  the  Berkeley  Divinity 
School  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  and  then  served  as  assistant  min- 
ister at  Meriden,  Conn.  In  May,  1872,  he  became  Rector  of  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Brookfield,  Conn.  From  January,  1873,  till  June, 
1879,  ne  was  Principal  of  Oxford  Academy,  Oxford,  N.  Y.,  when 
he  resigned  and  went  to  the  Rocky  Mountain  region  as  a  home 
missionary. 

August  2,  1879,  he  located  in  Bozeman,  Montana,  where  he 
still  resides,  having  been  engaged  in  frontier  missionary  work  for 


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more  than  a  third  of  a  century.  For  many  years  he  had  charge  of 
the  religious  work  in  towns  situated  one  hundred  and  fifty  miles 
apart,  and  was  responsible  for  two  counties  each  larger  than  the 
State  of  Connecticut.  In  1894,  in  addition  to  the  care  of  his 
church  in  Bozeman,  he  had  charge  of  the  church  in  Livingston, 
twenty-five  miles  east,  and  his  work  was  still  spread  over  two  very 
large  counties.  In  Bozeman  he  had  a  very  comfortable  rectory, 
a  stone  church,  the  finest  in  the  state,  and  a  good  congregation  of 
earnest  helpers  in  all  lines  of  Christian  work. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Bozeman  Board  of  Education 
for  nearly  twenty-five  years,  and  is  now  its  Secretary. 

February  28,  191 1,  he  wrote: 

'There  is  not  much  to  add  about  my  work.  I  am  still  in  charge  of 
the  work  which  I  assumed  here  thirty-two  years  ago.  So  far  as  I  know, 
I  have  been  longer  in  one  place  than  any  other  clergyman  in  Montana. 
We  have  a  good  church  property  and  a  fair  congregation.  I  have  also 
three  missions,  now  nearer  home  than  those  I  had  charge  of  seventeen 
years  ago,  all  being  in  Gallatin  County.  I  am  Secretary  of  the  Diocese 
of  Montana,  and  have  been  one  of  the  two  Examining  Chaplains  for 
more  than  twenty-five  years.  I  have  been  Grand  Prelate  of  the  Grand 
Commandery  of  Knights  Templars  of  Montana  for  twelve  years. 

"I  bought  a  farm  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  last  year  in  this 
county,  and  as  I  am  sixty-seven  years  old  this  summer  and  think  I  am 
entitled  to  a  little  rest  in  my  old  age,  I  expect  to  retire  into  the  country 
before  long." 

He  resigned  from  his  pastorate  over  St.  James  July  1,  191 1,  and 
withdrew  to  his  farm,  but  on  account  of  the  accidental  death  of 
his  son-in-law  two  months  later,  he  sold  his  farm  and  moved  back 
to  the  city,  where  he  and  Mrs.  Lewis  are  now  living  with  their 
daughter.  He  has  recently  taken  charge  of  some  missions  in  the 
valley  at  Belgrade  and  Manhattan,  but  will  continue  to  reside  in 
Bozeman. 

He  was  married  to  Georgia  F.  Ambler,  June  7,  1871,  and  has 
had  five  children:  Arthur  Franklin,  born  February  29,  1872,  at 
Meriden,  Conn. ;  Giles  Deshon,  born  June  8,  1873,  at  Oxford, 
died  of  scarlet  fever  in  the  fall  of  1879,  at  Bozeman;  Alice 
Elizabeth,  born  June  20,  1875,  at  Oxford ;  Mary  Curtis,  born  June 
4,  1878,  at  Oxford;  and  Eleanor  Birdseye,  born  in  Bozeman 
March  15,  1889,  died  October  5  of  the  same  year. 

Arthur  Franklin  Lewis  was  the  first  of  the  sons  of  '68  to  enter 
Yale,  where  he  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1892.     He 


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studied  theology  at  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York 
City,  receiving  his  degree  in  1896,  and  is  Rector  of  St.  John's 
Church  in  North  Haven,  Conn.  He  was  married  June  2,  1896, 
in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  to  Edith  Raynor  Thompson,  and  has  a  son, 
George  Birdseye  Lewis,  born  in  Bozeman,  September  20,  1897. 

Alice  Elizabeth  was  married  in  1902  to  Irenaeus  K.  Wisner, 
and  has  three  children,  born  in  Bozeman :  Frank  Bradley,  April 
11,  1906;  Arthur  Whitney,  November  29,  1907;  Mary  Kneeland, 
November  15,  191 1.  Mr.  Wisner  met  an  accidental  death  at 
the  farm  in  August,  191 1. 


*George  Henry  Lewis 

Son  of  George  and  Lucy  P.  (Gager)  Lewis.  His  ancestors  were  among 
the  original  settlers  of  Farmington,  Conn.  His  parents  died  when  he  was 
quite  young,  and  he  was  brought  up  by  relatives. 

George  H.  Lewis  was  born  in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  September 
6,  1842.  At  the  close  of  the  seminary  year  1861-62,  he  left 
Williston  Seminary,  where  he  was  preparing  for  Yale,  and 
enlisted  in  Company  F,  Fourteenth  Connecticut  Volunteers. 
The  regiment  was  ordered  to  Washington  in  August,  and 
although  undisciplined  and  inexperienced  was  engaged  in  the 
battle  of  Antietam,  September  17,  where  it  suffered  severely. 
In  this  engagement  Lewis  was  wounded  in  the  left  shoulder. 
After  nearly  three  months  in  the  hospitals  at  Washington  and 
Alexandria,  he  rejoined  the  regiment  at  Falmouth,  December  6. 
A  week  later,  December  13,  1862,  occurred  the  disastrous  battle 
of  Fredericksburg,  in  which  the  Fourteenth  Connecticut  Regi- 
ment lost  nearly  one-third  of  its  number.  Here  Lewis  received 
a  severe  wound,  from  which  he  never  fully  recovered.  He  was 
discharged  in  October,  1863,  returned  to  Williston,  and  completed 
his  preparation  for  college. 

In  college  Lewis  showed  great  ability  as  a  writer  and  speaker. 
He  won  prizes  in  Debate  in  each  college  year;  also  prizes  in 
Sophomore  Declamation  and  in  Senior  Composition.  In  Senior 
year  he  was  awarded  a  Townsend  Premium,  and  divided  the 
DeForest  Prize  in  Oratory  with  Beckwith. 

After  graduation  at  Yale,  he  was  employed  as  teacher  for 
one  year  at  Branford,  Conn.,  and  for  two  years  in  Iowa  College, 


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at  Grinnell,  Iowa.  His  training  at  Yale  led  him  to  take  especial 
interest  in  debating  and  speaking  at  Grinnell,  and  the  Lewis 
Literary  Society  is  still  a  memorial  to  his  services  in  that  insti- 
tution. In  July,  1871,  he  resigned  his  position  at  Grinnell  and 
removed  to  Des  Moines,  which  he  made  his  permanent  home.  He 
lived  forty-two  years  in  that  city  and  almost  forty  in  the  same 
house.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Des  Moines  in  October, 
1872,  soon  became  a  prominent  lawyer,  and  was  Dean  and  Man- 


ager of  the  Law  School  in  connection  with  Drake  University  at 
Des  Moines  from  its  organization  till  1886,  when  he  resigned 
to  devote  himself  wholly  to  business.  In  April,  1886,  he  became 
President  and  Manager  of  the  Lewis  Investment  Company, 
which  negotiated  real  estate  loans  and  dealt  in  municipal  bonds. 
This  company  suffered  severely  in  the  panic  of  1893.  Shortly 
after,  a  private  firm  for  loans  and  insurance  was  organized  under 
the  firm  name  of  George  H.  &  E.  L.  Lewis.  Since  the  death  of 
Mr.  Lewis  the  business  has  been  continued  by  Mrs.  E.  L.  Lewis, 
the  surviving  partner,  at  415  Chestnut  Street. 


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He  made  a  special  study  of  railroad  problems  and  published : 

"National  Consolidation  of  the  Railways  of  the  United  States,"  350 
pp.,  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  1893. 

V 

This  work  was  favorably  noticed  by  most  of  the  prominent 
papers  in  the  country.  All  did  not,  of  course,  agree  with  the 
author,  but  nearly  all  regarded  the  book  as  an  important  con- 
tribution to  the  discussion  of  the  railway  problem.  Ex-Governor 
William  Larrabee  of  Iowa,  the  author  of  "The  Railroad  Ques- 
tion," considered  Mr.  Lewis's  book  the  best  presentation  of  the 
problem  that  had  yet  appeared,  and  Senator  Chauncey  M.  Depew 
wrote  to  Mr.  Lewis  that  his  book  was  the  fairest  to  all  parties 
concerned  that  had  yet  come  to  his  notice.  Lewis  also  published 
several  articles  on  railway  subjects,  among  which  are  the  follow- 
ing, which  appeared  first  in  the  Chicago  Railway  Review  and 
afterwards  were  issued  in  pamphlet  form: 

"Government  Control  and  Ownership  of  Railways,"  March,  1891. 

'The  Railway  Problem :  a  Review  of  Chairman  A.  B.  Stickney's  Book," 
May,  1891. 

"National  Ownership  of  the  Consolidated  Railways  of  the  United 
States,"  August,  1891. 

"Public  or  Private  Control  of  Railways,"    February,  1892. 

Lewis  was  several  times  President  of  the  Commercial  Club, 
which  he  helped  to  organize.  He  did  not  aspire  to  hold  any 
political  office,  but  he  was  elected  Alderman  on  an  independent 
ticket  in  1884,  and  again  in  1885.  He  was  deeply  interested  in 
Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  of  which  he  was  senior 
Deacon,  and  had  great  influence  in  shaping  its  history.  He  was 
Chairman  of  the  General  Committee  for  the  construction  of  the 
new  church  building,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  West  and  costing 
$120,000,  and  delivered  an  address  on  behalf  of  the  Committee 
at  the  meeting  of  the  State  Association  of  Congregational 
Ministers  held  in  the  church  when  it  was  dedicated  in  May,  1902. 
The  same  year  he  read  a  paper  on  "The  Attitude  of  Men  of 
Affairs  toward  the  Church"  before  the  Grinnell  Association  of 
Congregational  Ministers.  He  published  also  a  number  of 
articles  on  religious  subjects  in  the  magazines. 

In  1879-80  he  was  dangerously  ill,  and  for  many  weeks  was 
not  expected  to  recover,  and  for  nearly  six  months  did  not  see 


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the  inside  of  his  office.  For  the  next  twenty-five  or  thirty  years 
his  health  was  as  firm  as  ever.  In  December,  1909,  he  fell  com- 
ing down  the  stone  steps  at  his  home  and  injured  the  knee 
in  which  he  was  wounded  at  Fredericksburg,  and  was  compelled 
to  go  back  again  to  crutches,  using  the  same  pair  which  he  used 
during  his  first  two  years  at  Yale.  For  thirty  years  before  this 
accident  he  had  been  able  to  discard  crutches  and  walk  with  a 
single  cane. 

He  was  married  August  27,  1869,  to  Elmina  Elizabeth  Buell 
of  Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  by  whom  he  had  three  children,  born  at 
Des  Moines :  Anna  Newton,  August  6,  1873,  now  Field  Secre- 
tary of  the  Sunday  School  Association,  with  headquarters  at 
Provo,  Utah;  Henry  Buell,  October  18,  1874,  now  Vice- 
President  of  the  Baird-Taylor-Crawford-Lewis  Company  of 
Des  Moines;  Lucy  Gager,  September  12,  1876,  wife  of  Dr.  Erwin 
Schenk.  Mrs.  Elmina  Buell  Lewis  died  in  May,  1896,  and  he 
was  again  married  December  5,  1898,  to  Emma  Estina  Lorimer, 
by  whom  he  had  twin  daughters,  born  October  7,  1900,  Martha 
Estine  and  Mary  Louise. 

Mr.  Lewis  died  of  cardiac  asthma  at  his  home,  415  Chestnut 
Street,  Des  Moines,  on  Sunday,  March  16,  1913,  at  the  age  of 
seventy  years.  Funeral  services  were  held  on  Wednesday  after- 
noon at  Plymouth  Church. 

Among  the  many  tributes  to  his  worth  were  the  following: 

"The  career  of  George  H.  Lewis,  who  passed  away  at  his  home  in  this 
city  yesterday  morning,  discloses  a  splendid  type  of  the  useful  citizen. 
Mr.  Lewis  could  maintain  a  deep  and  intelligent  interest  in  all  public 
affairs  without  engendering  any  personal  passion  for  public  office.  He  was 
a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War,  and  he  felt  and  lived  true  patriotism.  He  was 
a  college  man  and  was  an  able  defender  of  the  higher  education.  He 
was  a  lawyer  and  he  made  it  a  lifelong  study  how  to  apply  the  sound 
principles  of  the  law  in  promoting  the  cause  of  good  government.  He 
believed  in  the  church,  and  the  church  learned  to  depend  upon  him  not 
only  for  material  aid  but  for  the  wise  counsel  which  he  was  always  able 
and  willing  to  give." — The  Des  Moines  Capital,  March  17,  1913. 

"Des  Moines  will  miss  the  cultured  face  and  kindly  voice  of  George  H. 
Lewis.  Mr.  Lewis  was  typical  of  the  men  New  England  contributed  to 
the  new  West.  Of  liberal  attainments  himself,  he  had  the  New  England 
zeal  to  secure  liberal  attainments  for  others.  He  stood  for  leadership 
in  education,  in  the  church,  in  city  building.  In  his  forty  years  in  Des 
Moines  he  made  a  definite  impress  on  the  growth  and  character  of  the 
city." — The  Des  Moines  Evening  Tribune,  March  17,  1913. 


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John  Lewis 

Son  of  Warren  and  Maria  (Phelps)  Lewis.  On  the  paternal  side  he 
was  descended  in  the  eighth  generation  from  George  Lewis,  who  landed 
at  Plymouth  in  1630,  and  on  both  his  father's  and  his  mother's  side  in 
the  fourth  generation  from  Aaron  Phelps,  who  was  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1758. 

John  Lewis  was  born  in  Suffield,  Conn.,  June  22,  1842,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institution 
in  his  native  town.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-second 
Connecticut  Volunteers,  and  served  nearly  a  year  in  Virginia. 

In  college  he  was  awarded  prizes  in  Declamation  (first  prize) 
and  in  Composition  (second  prize  in  Sophomore  year  and  first 
in  Senior  year)  ;  won  four  prizes  in  Debate  (third  in  Freshman 
year,  second  in  Sophomore  and  Junior  years,  and  first  in  Senior 
year)  ;  had  Philosophical  Oration  rank  in  scholarship ;  was  one 
of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition ;  and  was  one  of  the  editors 
of  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine. 

For  a  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Hartford  High 
School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  the  latter  city  in  March, 
1870.     He  delivered  the  Historical  Address  at  the  celebration 


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of  the  Bicentennial  Anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  the  town 
of  Suffield,  Wednesday,  October  12,  1870.  In  January,  1871, 
he  went  to  Chicago  and  was  an  assistant  in  the  City  Law  Depart- 
ment until  December,  1873,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Tuley,  Stiles  &  Lewis,  succeeded  in  1879  by  Stiles  & 
Lewis.  The  latter  firm  continued  until  1891,  when  Lewis 
retired  from  active  practice.  Since  then  he  has  been  engaged 
mostly  in  legal  writing.  He  brought  out  a  series  of  books 
entitled  "American  Railroad  and  Corporation  Reports."  Volume 
I  of  the  series  was  published  in  1890,  and  Volume  XII,  com- 
pleting the  series,  in  1896.  E.  B.  Myers  &  Company  of  Chicago 
were  the  publishers.  In  1888  he  published  a  work  on  which  he 
had  been  engaged  for  fourteen  years,  "The  Law  of  Eminent 
Domain" ;  a  second  edition  of  the  same,  in  two  volumes,  was 
published  in  1900,  and  a  third  edition  in  1909.  This  work  was 
issued  by  Callagham  &  Company,  Chicago. 

He  has  resided  since  1873  at  Oak  Park,  which  adjoins  Chicago 
on  the  west.  He  was  Treasurer  and  Trustee  of  his  town  from 
1879  to  1 881,  and  again  for  the  year  1898-99,  and  was  President 
of  the  town  in  1899- 1900.  He  has  been  a  library  Trustee  since 
1883.  He  is  also  Trustee  of  Unity  Church  and  President  of 
the  Oak  Park  Historical  Society. 

In  1909  he  wrote  to  the  Secretary: 

"It  sometimes  seems  as  if  I  had  not  much  to  show  for  my  sixty-seven 
years  of  life.  I  have  lived  in  a  quiet  way,  in  a  quiet  town;  but  the  quiet 
town  is  quiet  no  longer.  From  a  community  of  less  than  a  thousand  when 
I  came  here  in  1873,  it  has  grown  to  number  more  than  twenty  thousand 
souls.  We  did  not  have  a  separate  municipality  of  Oak  Park  until  1902. 
Prior  to  that  time  we  were  a  part  of  the  larger  town  of  Cicero,  and  we 
had  a  long  and  weary  struggle  extending  over  some  fifteen  or  twenty 
years  to  get  ourselves  set  off  as  a  distinct  municipality." 

In  his  address  at  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  new 
Oak  Park  Municipal  Building  on  Saturday,  November  14,  1903, 
Mr.  Jesse  A.  Baldwin  said : 

"The  evolution  of  this  village,  with  its  high  ideals,  has  been  gradual ; 
not  at  every  step  of  the  way  has  the  end  been  distinctly  in  view ;  but 
for  the  past  ten  years  its  accomplishment  has  been  the  deliberate  purpose 
of  many  of  our  earnest  citizens.  To  this  end  the  columns  of  our  news- 
papers have  been  used ;  our  various  church  clubs  and  other  similar  organ- 
izations have  spent  entire  evenings  in  the  discussion  of  the  matters 
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involved ;  clergymen,  tradesmen,  physicians,  mechanics,  teachers,  lawyers, 
bankers, — all,  all  have  had  a  part.  For  months  at  a  time  it  has  been  the 
all-absorbing  topic  in  our  community. 

"Though  many  causes  and  many  persons  have  actively  contributed  to 
produce  our  present  municipal  condition,  it  is  a  matter  of  common  knowl- 
edge that  the  efforts  of  one  man  in  his  private  and  official  life  have 
contributed  more  to  that  end  than  those  of  any  other  person.  Why  need 
I  wait  till  he  is  dead  and  past  the  possibility  of  knowing  how  highly  he 
is  esteemed,  to  thus  publicly  recognize  our  indebtedness  to  him?  You  all 
know  him — Mr.  John  Lewis." 

Referring  to  this  tribute  to  our  classmate,  the  editor  of  Oak 
Leaves,  on  November  20,  made  the  following  editorial  comment : 

"There  was  no  feature  of  the  corner-stone  laying  last  Saturday  that  was 
more  pleasing  to  the  citizens  of  Oak  Park  than  the  tribute  which  Mr. 
Jesse  A.  Baldwin  paid  to  Mr.  John  Lewis,  as  the  man  to  whom,  more 
than  to  any  other,  we  owe  our  village  government.  Mr.  Lewis's  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  Oak  Park  public  have  been  through  many  channels,  but 
none  have  been  more  effective  than  the  services  which  he  gave  when  hold- 
ing the  office  of  Supervisor,  and  then  of  President  of  the  town  of  Cicero, 
in  1898,  1899,  and  1900. 

"Mr.  Lewis,  against  his  own  political  and  financial  interest  as  an  office- 
holder of  the  old  town,  cast  his  influence  for  a  separate  government  for 
Oak  Park.  His  career  in  public  office  has  been  marked  by  a  degree  of 
unselfishness  and  probity  that  is  rarely  found  in  American  political  life." 

He  was  married,  July  27,  1868,  to  Adelaide  E.  Harmon,  of 
Suffield,  by  whom  he  had  three  children :  Warren  Harmon,  born 
at  Suffield,  June  17,  1870;  John  Gurdon,  born  at  Chicago, 
December  10,  1872;  Helen  Adelaide,  born  at  Oak  Park,  June 
16,  1876.  Mrs.  Lewis  died  April  21,  1881.  He  was  again 
married  July  6,  1882,  to  Isadel  H.  Read  of  Bloomington,  111., 
by  whom  he  has  had  two  sons:  Read,  born  May  19,  1887,  and 
Harmon,  born  October  30,  1888. 

Dr.  Warren  Harmon  Lewis,  the  '68  Class  Boy,  was  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Chicago  Manual  Training  School  and  was 
graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Science  at  the  University  of  Michigan 
in  1894.  After  serving  two  years  as  Assistant  in  Zoology  at 
that  university,  he  entered  Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  1900.  He  has  since  taught  Anatomy  at 
Johns  Hopkins,  as  Assistant  till  1904,  when  he  was  promoted  to 
an  Associate  Professorship.  In  19 13  he  was  appointed  Pro- 
fessor of  Physiological  Anatomy.     His  publications  along  ana- 


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tomical  lines  consist  of  about  twenty-five  papers.  He  is  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  Anatomical  Record,  and  has  been  for  several 
years  on  the  research  staff  of  the  Marine  Biological  Laboratory 
at  Wood's  Hole.  He  was  married  May  23,  1910,  at  Cedar  Lawn, 
Govans,  Maryland,  to  Margaret  A.  Reed,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Joseph  C.  Reed  of  Meyersdale,  Pa.,  and  has  a  daughter,  Margaret 
N.  Lewis,  born  in  Baltimore,  August  20,  191 1,  and  a  son,  War- 
ren Reed  Lewis,  born  in  Baltimore,  December  28,  1912.  Mrs. 
Lewis,  before  her  marriage,  was  Instructor  in  Zoology  and  Physi- 
ology at  Barnard  College.  Professor  and  Mrs.  Lewis  have 
aroused  much  public  interest  by  their  success  in  growing  various 
tissues  from  embryos  outside  the  living  organisms  in  solutions  or 
media  of  known  chemical  constitution.  They  have  cultivated  in 
this  manner  nerves,  heart,  liver,  spleen,  intestine,  and  other  tis- 
sues, and  are  still  actively  at  work. 

John  Gurdon  Lewis  (M.E.  University  of  Michigan  1897)  has 
resided  in  Detroit  since  1901,  where  he  has  been  connected  with 
the  Detroit  Screw  Works  as  Superintendent  and  otherwise.  He 
is  now  General  Superintendent  of  the  Standard  Screw  Com- 
pany, which  has  factories  at  Chicago,  Detroit,  Elyria,  Hartford 
and  Worcester,  and  Factory  Manager  of  the  Detroit  Screw 
Works.  He  was  married  to  Margaret  Lloyd  Philip  of  Hill- 
side, Wis.,  June  26,  1902,  and  has  one  child,  Philip  Gurdon 
Lewis,  born  February  22,  1906.  Mrs.  Margaret  Philip  Lewis, 
wife  of  John  Gurdon  Lewis,  died  February  27,  1912. 

Helen  Adelaide  was  married  to  Frank  E.  Banks  of  Lawrence, 
Kans.,  on  May  22,  1901,  and  resides  in  that  city. 

Read  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  in  1909,  spent  one  year  in  graduate  work  at 
Columbia,  and  is  now  (1914)  taking  the  law  course  in  the  latter 
university,  where  he  expects  to  take  his  degree  in  June. 

Harmon  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  in  191 1  and  continued  graduate  work  at 
the  same  institution  in  geology  and  kindred  subjects.  In  1912 
he  went  to  Brazil  for  two  years  as  geologist  for  an  iron  and 
steel  company. 


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William  Alexander  Linn 

Son  of  Dr.  Alexander  Linn  (Union  College  1831)  and  Julia  (Vibbert) 
Linn,  daughter  of  Horace  Vibbert.  His  great-grandparents  were  Joseph 
Linn,  born  in  1725,  and  Martha  Kirkpatrick,  born  in  1723.  They  were 
Scotch  (Linn  being  Scotch  for  waterfall) .  The  Kirkpatricks  came  from 
Wattie's  Neach,  Dumfriesshire,  Scotland.  His  great-grandparents  came  to 
America  in  1736,  landing  at  New  Castle,  Del.,  and  settling  near  Basking 
Ridge,  N.  J.  His  grandfather,  John  Linn,  was  born  in  Warren  County, 
N.  J.,  December  3,  1763.  In  the  Revolutionary  War  he  joined  Captain 
Manning's  Sussex  County  Troop,  as  a  private,  and  became  Sergeant. 
After  the  war  he  read  law.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Assembly  in 
1803,  and  the  next  year  to  the  Council,  as  the  Senate  was  then  called. 
In  1810  he  was  elected  by  the  Legislature  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  holding  the  office  four  terms.  He  was  Sheriff  of  Sussex 
County  in  1812,  and  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1819,  holding  his  seat 
until  his  death  in  Washington  in  January,  1824.  He  married  Martha  Hunt 
in  1791,  and  by  her  had  fourteen  children,  of  whom  Dr.  Alexander  Linn 
was  the  eighth. 


William  A.  Linn  was  born  in  Deckertown  (now  Sussex),  N.  J., 
September  4,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  He  delivered  the  Thanksgiving-  Jubilee 
Oration  in  our  Sophomore  year,  and  represented  the  class  on 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  l8l 

the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee  in  our  Senior  year;  was 
Secretary  of  the  First  University  Baseball  Association  at  Yale; 
won  first  prize  in  Sophomore  Composition;  was  an  editor  of 
the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  one  of  the  three  Class  Historians, 
and  the  Class  Poet. 

In  August,  1868,  he  went  to  New  York,  entered  his  name  in 
a  law  office,  and  at  the  same  time  began  looking  for  a  situation 
in  journalism.  After  applying  in  vain  at  the  Times  and  Sun 
offices,  he  went  to  the  Tribune,  where  he  stumbled  across  John 
Russell  Young,  the  managing  editor,  and  told  him  what  he 
wanted.  Mr.  Young  said  they  sometimes  "gave  young  men  a 
chance,"  and  introduced  him  to  the  city  editor,  who  told  him  to 
"come  around"  the  next  day.  He  "went  round,"  but  was  told 
there  was  no  assignment  for  him  that  day.  He  kept  this  up 
for  about  a  week,  with  the  same  result,  when  he  again  sought 
Mr.  Young  and  told  him  of  his  poor  success.  Mr.  Young  again 
told  the  city  editor  to  give  the  new-comer  a  chance,  and  he  then 
got  his  first  assignment — to  make  an  index  of  Mr.  Greeley's 
"Busy  Life"  from  the  author's  notes.  As  he  could  read  only 
about  one  word  in  five,  he  made  slow  work  of  it.  Next  he  was 
set  to  work  making  "political  notes"  from  newspaper  clippings 
(during  the  first  Grant  campaign).  From  this  time  he  got 
occasional  assignments  as  a  reporter,  making  on  an  average 
about  ten  dollars  a  week.  On  New  Year's  night,  1869,  on  reach- 
ing the  office  he  found  a  note  appointing  him  assistant  city  editor, 
his  duty  being  to  prepare  the  reporters'  copy  for  the  press  as  it 
was  turned  in.  This  was  night  work,  keeping  him  up  until 
2.30  a.  m.,  and  compelling  him  when  the  car  tracks  were  blocked 
with  snow,  to  break  a  path  up  Broadway  at  that  hour.  On  May 
13,  1869,  the  managing  editor  assigned  him  to  the  editorship 
of  the  weekly  and  semi-weekly  editions,  "as  an  expression  of 
my  confidence  in  your  efficiency,  industry  and  fidelity."  In 
December,  1869,  the  then  managing  editor,  Whitelaw  Reid, 
wrote  him :  "The  weekly  has  been  greatly  improved,  and  we 
have  to  thank  you  in  large  part  for  it."  On  September  1,  1870, 
he  was  appointed  to  the  night  editorship  of  the  daily  Tribune. 
The  duties  of  the  weekly  desk  were  pleasant,  except  that  they 
required  the  holder  of  it  to  sit  up,  three  nights  in  the  week, 
until  the  daily  was  out,  in  order  to  use  its  type.  The  irregular 
hours  told  somewhat  on  his  health,  and  in  this  way  the  new 


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assignment  was  an  improvement,  although  it  was  considered  the 
hardest  position  on  the  paper.  In  December,  1870,  the  managing 
editor  wrote  him :  "Your  work  as  night  editor  has  proved 
cleaner,  more  thoroughly  tasteful  and  every  way  satisfactory 
than  I  expected,  and  my  expectations  were  by  no  meahs  low." 
He  kept  this  position  till  November,  1871,  when  he  resigned  to 
accept  the  city  editorship  of  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  thus 
emerging  from  night  to  daylight.  In  July,  1872,  he  was  offered 
the  editorship  of  the  Troy  (N.  Y.)  Morning  Whig,  with  the 
privilege  of  purchasing  an  interest  in  the  paper.  He  remained 
in  Troy  until  May,  1873,  working  night  and  day,  with  incompe- 
tent assistance  (with  one  exception).  Finding  that  the  paper 
had  no  financial  standing,  and  that  it  would  take  more  capital 
than  he  could  command  to  put  it  on  a  paying  basis,  he  resigned 
and  returned  to  the  city.  He  was  at  once  offered  the  position 
of  news  and  superintending  editor  on  the  Evening  Post,  with 
which  paper  he  remained  twenty-six  years,  becoming  its  man- 
aging editor  in  October,  1891.  He  continued  to  hold  the  position 
of  managing  editor  of  the  Evening  Post  until  April,  1900,  when 
his  resignation  as  a  member  of  the  staff,  tendered  the  previous 
December,  was  accepted.  Long  years  of  wearing  and  continuous 
labor,  with  little  real  rest,  had  aggravated  his  indigestion  and 
worn  on  his  nerves  until  he  was  warned  by  his  physician  that 
he  must  have  rest.  When  finally  his  resignation  was  accepted, 
the  trustees  of  the  paper  presented  to  him  a  silver  loving  cup, 
with  the  following  resolutions: 

"The  trustees  of  the  Evening  Post  Publishing  Company  accept  with 
sincere  regret  the  resignation  of  Mr.  William  A.  Linn,  managing  editor, 
necessitated  by  ill  health.  They  desire  to  place  on  record  their  appreci- 
ation of  his  nineteen  years  of  punctual  and  capable  service  under  the 
present  ownership  of  the  paper,  following  more  than  a  decade  of  like 
service  under  the  former  regime.  His  loyalty  has  been  conspicuous  amid 
many  examples  to  the  contrary,  and  without  regard  to  personal  remu- 
neration or  advantage.  His  editorial  writing  has  been  forcible  and  effective, 
and  always  on  a  high  plane.  His  character  for  integrity  and  independent 
principle  has  commanded  the  respect  of  his  employers  and  associates,  who 
lose  in  him,  before  all,  a  man.  The  trustees  assure  him  of  their  grate- 
ful esteem  and  their  best  wishes  for  his  early  restoration  to  health  and 
usefulness." 

His  associates  on  the  editorial  staff  presented  to  him,  engrossed 
and  signed  in  autograph,  the  following  testimonial : 


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"Dear  Mr.  Linn: 

Your  associates  on  the  staff  of  the  Evening  Post  desire  to  testify  their 
extreme  regret  that  the  state  of  your  health  has  compelled  you  to  resign 
your  position  as  managing  editor.  They  wish  also  to  express  their  regard 
and  admiration  for  your  long,  faithful  and  invaluable  service  to  the 
paper,  and  for  your  splendid  record  as  one  of  the  ablest  of  American 
journalists.  You  are  the  senior  of  all  of  us  but  one,  in  point  of  service, 
on  the  Evening  Post,  and  you  have  richly  earned  the  many  years  of 
quiet  and  rest  which  we  trust  now  await  you.  The  honors  due  to  a 
long  career  of  usefulness  and  to  a  character  without  stain,  will  always 
surround  you  in  our  estimation.  We  wish  you  long  life,  health  and  pros- 
perity, and  shall  watch  your  future  career  with  the  deepest  interest  in 
whatever  field  your  remarkable  activity  may  make  itself  felt." 

The  exacting  duties  of  his  journalistic  positions  gave  him  little 
time  or  energy  for  outside  work.  He  contributed  an  article  on 
"Italian  Music  Boys"  to  the  Galaxy  in  1869;  an  article  on 
"District  Telegraph  Boys"  to  St.  Nicholas;  and  two  articles 
on  Building  and  Loan  Associations  to  Scribner's  Magazine  (in 
June,  1889,  and  May,  1890),  since  published  in  book  form  in 
"Homes  in  City  and  Country."  Besides  these,  he  contributed 
short  anonymous  articles  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  to  Harper's 
Young  People,  and  a  series  of  hunting  sketches  to  The  Country, 
a  weekly  paper.  He  was  also  for  many  years  the  New  York 
correspondent  of  the  Philadelphia  Telegraph  and  the  Boston 
Transcript. 

During  the  later  years  of  his  connection  with  the  Evening  Post 
Linn  had  been  collecting  material  for  a  history  of  Mormonism, 
and  had  been  instrumental  in  securing  for  the  New  York  Public 
Library  an  unique  collection  of  works  on  the  subject,  for  the 
purchase  of  which  Miss  Helen  Gould  contributed  two  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars.  He  at  once  began  work  on  his  "Story  of 
the  Mormons"  as  soon  as  he  had  left  the  Evening  Post,  and 
had  the  manuscript  ready  for  the  publishers  (the  Macmillan 
Company)  in  the  autumn  of  1901,  and  the  book  was  published 
in  June,  1902.  In  the  summer  of  1902  he  wrote  "Rob  and  his 
Gun,"  a  book  for  boys,  giving  an  account  of  his  own  hunting 
experiences,  and  this  was  published  by  Scribner's  in  September 
of  that  year.  Later  in  the  same  year  he  undertook  a  biography 
of  Horace  Greeley  for  Appleton's  "Series  of  Historic  Lives," 
and  this  was  published  in  March,  1903.  Since  giving  up  journal- 
ism, he  has  contributed  to  editorial  pages  of  the  Evening  Post 
and  the  Times's  Literary  Supplement,  and  to  some  periodicals. 


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Since  1875  ne  nas  been  a  resident  of  Hackensack,  N.  J.  He 
was  the  President  of  the  Bergen  County  Republican  Club  for  a 
year  or  two,  until  Blaine  was  nominated,  when  he  became  a 
Mugwump.  He  assisted  in  forming  the  Hackensack  Mutual 
Building  and  Loan  Association  in  1887,  and  was  its  fir"st  Presi- 
dent. He  was  in  1890  and  1891  Vice-President  of  the  Building 
and  Loan  Association  League  of  New  Jersey.  He  has  been  a 
Director  of  the  Hackensack  Hall  and  Armory  Association,  a 
Trustee  of  the  Hackensack  Golf  Club,  and  Secretary  of  the 
Hackensack  Investment  Association,  a  corporation  dealing  in 
real  estate. 

In  1900  the  Governor  of  New  Jersey  appointed  him  a  member 
of  the  Commission  authorized  by  the  Legislature  to  devise  means 
to  preserve  the  Palisades.  This  Commission  secured  the  passage 
of  the  law  (by  the  Legislatures  of  New  Jersey  and  New  York) 
under  which  the  Palisades  Interstate  Park  Commission  was 
established,  and  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governors  of  the  two 
states  a  member  of  the  original  Commission  and  was  reappointed 
for  five  years  in  the  spring  of  1903  and  again  reappointed.  This 
Commission  has  stopped  the  destruction  of  the  Palisades  and 
will  soon  have  title  to  the  whole  front. 

He  has  continued  to  hold  the  office  of  President  of  the  Hack- 
ensack Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Association,  which  now  has 
assets  of  over  $1,600,000,  has  never  made  a  loss,  and  has  not 
a  dollar's  worth  of  real  estate  among  its  assets.  This  record 
is  said  to  be  unique  among  such  associations.  He  has  been  a 
Trustee  of  the  Johnson  Public  Library  of  Hackensack  since  its 
organization  in  1901. 

In  the  spring  of  1903  a  state  bank  with  a  capital  of  $75,000 
was  organized  in  Hackensack,  and  the  presidency  was  tendered 
to  Linn  and  accepted  by  him.     He  writes : 

"I  would  have  been  glad  to  continue  my  literary  work,  which  the  crit- 
ics have  received  with  a  good  deal  of  favor.  But  'serious  literature,' 
like  history  and  biography,  does  not  bring  a  large  remuneration  to  the 
author,  and  I  decided  to  drop  the  pen  and  go  into  banking,  with  the  idea 
that,  if  the  bank  is  a  success,  it  will  keep  me  out  of  the  poorhouse  in 
my  later  years,  and  if  it  is  not,  it  will  get  me  settled  there  the  sooner." 

The  bank  has  proved  a  great  success,  and  is  now  the  largest 
"bank  in  Bergen  County,  with  a  capital,  surplus  and  undivided 
profits  of  $350,000  and  deposits  of  $2,700,000. 


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In  1910,  he,  with  other  directors  of  the  Peoples  National  Bank, 
organized  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ridgefield  Park,  N.  J., 
three  miles  from  Hackensack,  and  has  been  its  president  since 
that  time.  This  bank  is  also  a  success,  and  has  recently  moved 
into  a  handsome  building  which  it  has  erected  for  its  own 
business. 

In  1895  he  purchased  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  seventy-two 
acres  in  the  mountain  region  of  Sussex  County,  N.  J.,  where  he 
set  out  three  thousand  peach  trees  and  a  large  apple  orchard, 
and  where  he  had  a  dairy  of  between  thirty  and  forty  cows. 
He  continues  to  own  this  farm,  which  was  a  source  of  some 
levity  at  the  reunion  in  1898,  makes  it  yield  over  eight  per  cent, 
on  the  investment,  and  is  satisfied  that  farming  intelligently  and 
liberally  conducted   "pays." 

On  July  11,  1912,  Linn  resigned  his  membership  in  the  Pali- 
sades Interstate  Park  Commission,  having  served  as  a  member 
of  this  commission  since  its  organization.  To  his  letter  of 
resignation,  Governor  Dix  replied: 

"It  is  a  source  of  much  regret  to  me  that  you  are  to  sever  your  con- 
nection with  that  important  Commission.  The  service  that  you  are  per- 
forming for  the  benefit  of  future  generations  in  your  efforts  to  provide, 
preserve  and  protect  some  of  the  most  beautiful  scenery  of  the  world, 
located  in  this  Park,  is  commendable,  and  I  feel  that  in  your  superior 
qualifications  for  that  important  service  the  State  is  losing  one  of  its 
most  valued  servants  in  your  resignation." 

He  was  for  a  year  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  New  York  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Authors'  Club  of  that  city.  He  studied  law  in  1882  and  1883 
with  Varnum,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  New  York  in 
March,  1883,  but  has  never  practiced. 

He  was  married  January  31,  1871,  in  New  York  City,  to  Miss 
M.  A.  Martin.  Mrs.  Linn  died  March  5,  1897,  of  acute  brain 
trouble. 


*Donald  MacGregor 

Youngest  child  of  James  and  Christiana  (MacMartin)  MacGregor.  His 
mother  was  daughter  of  Judge  Duncan  MacMartin  of  Broadalbin,  N.  Y., 
and  granddaughter  of  Duncan  MacMartin,  who  was  at  the  head  of  the 
Latin  School  in  Albany  at  the  close  of  the  last  century. 


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Donald  MacGregor  was  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  November  30, 
1844,  and  entered  college  from  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  having  been 
prepared  at  Albany  Academy. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  studied  theology  at  Princeton,  graduat- 
ing there  in  1871.  He  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Park*  Presby- 
terian Church,  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in  1872,  and  continued  in  charge  of 
that  church  until  his  death.  No  better  proof  of  the  success  of 
his  ministry  is  needed  than  the  fact  that  his  pastorate  extended 
over  a  period  of  nearly  thirty-eight  years. 


He  died  of  apoplexy  on  Wednesday,  May  11,  1910,  in  Water- 
vliet  (formerly  West  Troy),  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Frederick 
W.  Orr,  with  whom  he  had  resided  for  thirty-five  years.  The 
funeral  services  were  held  on  the  following  Saturday  in  the 
church  of  which  he  was  pastor.  Interment  was  in  the  Albany 
Rural  Cemetery. 

A  short  time  before  his  death,  he  wrote  to  the  Secretary: 

''Mine  has  been  a  very  quiet  life  and  a  very  small  work,  judged  by 
common  standards.  My  books  are  written  only  in  human  lives  and  hearts. 
I  should  reluctantly  compare  my  humble  life  with  the  more  successful 
lives  of  many  of  my  classmates,  and  yet  I  am  confident  that  it  has  not 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  1 87 

been  wasted.  I  seem  to  have  one  distinguishing  quality  only,  that  is, 
'patient  continuance.'  I  am  still  preaching  in  the  church  in  which  I  was 
ordained  in  1872.  The  best  word  about  my  work  is  that  we  are  hold- 
ing our  own  against  difficulties." 

The  following  estimate  is  from  the  Troy  Daily  Press  of 
May  1 1 : 

"He  was  a  scholarly  man  and  a  great  Bible  student,  well  versed  in 
theology.  His  sermons  showed  depth  of  thought,  and  he  was  able  to 
preach  the  truths  of  the  Scriptures  in  a  convincing  manner.  He  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  meetings  of  the  Troy  Presbytery,  and  his  voice 
was  always  raised  in  favor  of  any  movement  that  would  advance  the 
cause  of  his  church  and  religion  generally.  He  was  also  greatly  interested 
in  the  weak  and  struggling  churches  of  the  Presbytery.  Particularly,  he 
gave  a  great  deal  of  time  to  the  organization  of  the  Armenian  Presby- 
terian Church  in  this  city,  and  its  successful  installation  is  due  in  a  large 
measure  to  him." 

Mr.  Frederick  W.  Orr  wrote  on  August  II,  1910,  regarding 
his  life  and  work: 

"In  addition  to  the  work  in  his  church,  Mr.  MacGregor  devoted  con- 
siderable time  and  labor  in  aiding  the  Armenians,  who  were  being 
attracted  to  Troy  by  its  collar  industry,  to  learn  our  language  and  to 
obtain  religious  instruction.  He  finally  succeeded  in  establishing  an 
Armenian  Presbyterian  Church  under  care  of  a  pastor  and  in  the  erec- 
tion of  a  church  building,  earning  thereby  the  name  of  'The  Father  of 
the  Armenian   Church   of  Troy.' 

"The  course  of  his  pastorate  ran  very  smoothly  throughout  its  entire 
length.  By  well-directed  and  indefatigable  toil,  he  kept  life  in  a  church 
whose  inevitable  demise  from  natural  causes  was  a  foregone  conclusion, 
owing  to  the  abandonment  by  Protestants  to  Roman  Catholics  of  the 
territory  in  which  his  church  was  situated.  Although  for  the  last  fifteen 
years  of  his  life  he  was  far  from  being  in  good  health,  still  he  was  always 
in  his  pulpit  on  the  Sabbath.  I  have  known  him  to  be  so  ill  on  Satur- 
day that  he  could  hardly  be  about,  but  on  Sunday  he  would  rise  superior 
to  bodily  infirmities,  and  from  sheer  force  of  will  power  perform  the 
duties  of  the  day. 

"He  never  committed  any  of  his  work  to  print.  During  the  thirty-five 
years  of  our  living  together,  I  never  knew  him  to  write  a  single  sermon. 
He  carried  into  the  pulpit  only  a  single  sheet  of  note  paper  on  which  was 
written  merely  the  heads  of  his  discourse.  His  sermons  and  lectures  were 
always  interesting  and  full  of  suggestive  thought,  and  he  had  a  very  attrac- 
tive way  of  presenting  his  subjects.  Had  he  been  selfishly  ambitious, 
he  could  have  written  his  name  well  up  on  the  scroll  of  fame.  His  only 
ambition  was  to  merit   his   Master's   commendation. 


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"I  will  close  with  the  words  uttered  at  the  first  meeting  of  his  church 
after  his  death,  which  may  throw  some  additional  light  upon  the  estima- 
tion in  which  he  was  held  by  his  people :  'We  venerate  the  day  that 
Donald  MacGregor  came  into  our  lives.' " 


William  Allison  McKinney 

Son  of  Edward  McKinney  and  Marcia  M.  (Phillips)  McKinney,  and 
brother  of  Edward  P.  McKinney  (Yale  College  1861).  His  father  was 
born  at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  in  1806,  and  was  the  son  of  Jacob  McKinney, 
one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  place.  Jacob  McKinney  was  the  fourth 
in  descent  from  John  McKinney,  who  came  to  Boston  from  the  Isle  of 
Skye  in  1668  and  settled  near  what  is  now  Scarborough,  Maine.  Marcia 
M.  McKinney,  the  mother  of  William  A.,  was  the  daughter  of  John  Phil- 
lips of  Exeter,  N.  Y.,  the  third  John  in  descent  from  John  Phillips  of 
Cambridge,  Mass. 

William  A.  McKinney  was  born  August  31,  1845,  at  Tod- 
town,  just  out  of  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.  He  received  his  prep- 
aration for  college  in  part  at  the  Susquehanna  Seminary  in 
Binghamton,  and  later  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  where  he 
graduated  in  1863.  He  entered  Yale  that  fall  in  the  Class  of 
'67,  but  at  the  close  of  Freshman  year  left  the  class   for  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  I  89 

army,  and  joined  his  brother,  of  the  Class  of  '61,  who  had  been 
appointed  by  President  Lincoln  Commissary  of  Subsistence. 
McKinney  was  made  clerk  in  the  Commissary  Department,  and 
was  attached  to  headquarters  of  the  Second  Brigade  of  the  First 
Cavalry  Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  under  General 
Merritt.  He  reached  the  front  in  the  summer  of  1864,  and  was 
with  this  cavalry  division  during-  the  operations  of  General 
Sheridan  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  Returning  after  the  close 
of  the  war,  he  joined  '68  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

He  was  interested  in  boating;  was  stroke  of  the  Varuna  gig 
crew  in  Junior  year  and  of  the  '68  gig  crew  in  Senior  year.  He 
also  gave  special  attention  to  writing  and  speaking;  won  prizes 
in  Composition  and  Debate;  was  President  of  Linonia  in  the 
third  term  of  Senior  year;  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary 
Magazine;  was  one  of  the  six  competitors  for  the  DeForest 
Prize  in  Oratory,  and  one  of  the  speakers  at  Commencement. 

Immediately  after  Presentation  Day,  he  became  the  Assistant 
Editor  of  the  Norwich  Bulletin  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  which  was 
then  edited  by  William  H.  W.  Campbell  of  Yale  1856.  In  1869 
he  became  Associate  Editor  of  the  Hartford  Evening  Post,  then 
under  the  editorship  of  the  late  Isaac  H.  Bromley.  The  following 
year  he  entered  Columbia  College  Law  School,  under  Professor 
Dwight,  graduated  in  the  summer  of  1871,  and  opened  an  office 
in  Binghamton.  That  year  he  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the 
New  York  State  Council  of  Political  Reform,  but  continued  his 
practice  of  law  in  Binghamton  until  he  was  prostrated  with  a 
severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever  in  the  autumn  of  1872.  While 
convalescing,  he  went  to  Europe  for  a  short  stay,  and  then 
returned,  with  health  completely  restored,  to  his  office  in  Bing- 
hamton, where  he  has  remained  in  practice  ever  since.  His 
office  is  now  at  540  Security  Mutual  Building,  and  his  residence 
at  187  Court  Street. 

He  was  married  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  May  8,  1880,  to  Mary  E. 
Xiven,  daughter  of  the  late  Robert  J.  Niven,  Esq.,  and  has  had 
two  children:  Elisabeth  Niven,  born  at  Binghamton,  June  8, 
1881,  died  July  20,  1882;  and  Charlotte  Niven,  born  November 
12,  1886,  at  Binghamton. 

Charlotte  Niven  was  married  at  Binghamton,  Tuesday,  Octo- 
ber 28,  1913,  to  Dr.  Louis  Watson  Alston,  and  resides  at  15 
Thirty-sixth  Street,  East,  Savannah,  Ga. 


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George  Manierre,  Jr. 


Son  of  Hon.  George  Manierre,  Sr.,  a  lawyer,  who  was  born  in  New 
London,  Conn.,  July  15,  1817,  came  to  Chicago  in  1835,  and  died  in  the 
latter  city  May  21,  1863.  He  was  elected  in  1855  and  1861  Judge  of  the 
Seventh  Judicial  Circuit  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Law  Institute  and  Library,  of  Lincoln  Park,  the  Chi- 
cago Historical  Society,  the  Republican  Party,  the  Young  Men's  Asso- 
ciation (afterwards  the  present  Public  Library),  of  the  Anti-Slavery 
movement,  and  of  the  Union  Defense  Committee  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War.  His  death  was  deemed  a  public  calamity.  The  Court  House 
was  draped  in  mourning,  as  were  all  public  offices,  and  all  the  City 
Courts,  both  State  and  Federal,  adjourned  out  of  respect  to  his  memory. 
The  members  of  the  Chicago  Bar  in  a  body,  all  the  officers  of  the  Courts, 
the  Mayor  and  Common  Council,  and  other  prominent  men  were  at  his 
funeral,  and  the  body  was  escorted  through  the  streets  amid  the  tolling 
of  the  City  bells.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Louis  Manierre,  who  settled 
in  New  London,  Conn.,  in  1785,  and  whose  ancestor  came  from 
Normandy  to  this  country  with  a  colony  of  Huguenots  in  1680;  the  sur- 
name "Manierre,"  variously  spelled,  being  derived  by  appointment  from 
Royalty  to  coin  money  of  the  Realm.  He  was  also  a  lineal  descendant 
on  the  female  side  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  Miner,  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers who  bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  settlement  of  both  New  London 
and  Stonington,  Conn.,  prior  to  his  death  in  1690. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  191 

His  mother,  Ann  (Hamilton)  Manierre,  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
October  23,  1823,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Hon.  William  Reid,  barrister,  of 
that  city,  whose  ancestor,  from  his  estate  of  Kilbryd,  fought  with  his 
tenants  at  the  battle  of  Bothwell  Bridge,  June  22,  1679,  under  the  flag 
"For  God,  King  and  Covenants."  She  was  married  in  Detroit  in  1842,  and 
died  in  Chicago,  June  8,  1900. 

George  Manierre,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Chicago,  February  5,  1845. 
He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Lake  Forest  Academy  (1859-63), 
and  was  for  three  years  a  member  of  '68.  In  Freshman  year 
he  was  4th  Lieutenant  and  in  Sophomore  year  3d  Lieutenant 
of  the  Yaruna  Boat  Club.  In  Sophomore  year  he  represented 
the  class  on  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee,  and  in  Junior 
year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Spoon  Committee. 

He  received  the  degree  of  B.L.  from  Columbia  Law  School, 
New  York  City,  in  1869.  In  recognition  of  his  studies  in  English 
and  of  his  public  services  as  a  citizen,  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  '68,  was  conferred  on  him 
by  Yale  University  June  28,  1893. 

He  has  been  in  the  real  estate  business  since  1870.  On  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1886,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Henry  Dibblee  (who 
died  December  19,  1907)  under  the  firm  name  of  Dibblee  & 
Manierre,  real  estate.  He  is  a  Life  Trustee  of  the  Field  Museum 
of  Natural  History  in  Chicago,  elected  January  22,  1894,  and  on 
June  8,  1908,  was  elected  "Patron  for  eminent  services  to  the 
Field  Museum  of  Natural  History."  He  is  a  Life  Trustee  of 
the  Newberry  Library  of  Chicago,  elected  December  5,  1899. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Club,  the  Mid-Day  Club, 
the  Saddle  &  Cycle  Club,  and  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
and  is  a  governing  member  of  the  Art  Institute.  He  has  col- 
lected a  large  library  of  readable  books  in  Standard  Literature, 
early  Voyages  and  Travels,  and  early  American  History. 

On  February  9,  1876,  he  was  married  to  Ann  Eliza  Edgerton 
of  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  who  was  born  in  Hicksville,  Ohio, 
June  4,  1849,  educated  at  the  Farmington  School  in  Connect- 
icut (1863-67),  and  is  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Dames  of 
America.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Alfred  P.  Edgerton, 
descendant  of  Richard  Edgerton,  Original  Proprietor,  Norwich, 
Conn.,  1659,  and  a  lineal  descendant  on  the  female  side  of 
Lieutenant  William  Pratt,  one  of  the  early  settlers  who  bore 
a  conspicuous  part  in  the  settlement  of  Hartford  and  Saybrook, 


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Conn.,  prior  to  his  death  in  1678,  and  of  Charlotte  (Dixon) 
Edgerton,  who  was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  June  1,  1816, 
and  died  in  Hicksville,  Ohio,  January  21,  1891.  Alfred  P. 
Edgerton  was  born  in  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  January  11,  1813,  and 
died  in  Hicksville,  Ohio,  May  14,  1897.  He  was  a  prominent 
pioneer  in  Northwestern  Ohio,  was  engaged  in  real  estate,  canal, 
railroads,  and  gas  works,  was  a  Congressman  and  Independent 
Democratic  nominee  for  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  in 
1872,  with  Charles  O'Conor  for  President. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manierre  have  had  four  children : 

Alfred  Edgerton,  born  August  13,  1878;  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1902,  and  took  a  graduate  course  in  architecture  at 
Illinois  State  University;  is  by  profession  an  architect;  was 
married  March  20,  1907,  to  June  G.  Parkinson  of  Chicago, 
who  was  born  April  16,  1881.  Their  daughter,  Barbara  Drake, 
was  born  in  Chicago,  August  24,  1908. 

Louis,  born  September  23,  1879 ;  graduated  from  Yale  College 
in  1901  and  from  Northwestern  University  Law  School  in  1904; 
is  in  the  real  estate  business  with  the  firm  of  Dibblee  &  Manierre, 
Chicago. 

Arthur,  born  April  29,  1881 ;  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1903;  served  apprenticeship  in  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad  Company's  car  shops  at  Havelock,  Neb.,  and  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business  in  Chicago ; 
was  married  December  20,  1906,  to  Eleanor  Mason,  daughter 
of  Henry  B.  Mason,  Yale  College  1870.  She  was  born  December 
17,  1883,  and  was  graduated  from  Bryn  Mawr  College  in  1905. 
Arthur  Manierre  died  in  Henrotin  Memorial  Hospital,  October  7, 
1912,  after  a  surgical  operation.  He  and  his  partner  were  the 
inventors  of  a  Hermetic  Seal  for  milk  and  other  bottles  and 
of  the  machinery  for  making  it.  He  was  in  active  charge  of 
the  business  of  making  and  supplying  this  product  to  dairies 
throughout  the  United  States. 

Francis  Edgerton,  born  May  16,  1884;  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1907;  was  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  Real  Estate 
Board  1912-1913;  is  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  of  the 
Legislative  Voters  League;  is  in  the  real  estate  business  with 
the  firm  of  Dibblee  &  Manierre,  Chicago. 


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*Charles  Clark  Marsh 


Son  of  Augustus  and  Rebecca  (Clark)  Marsh,  was  born  Sep- 
tember ii,  1847,  m  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Jersey  City  Grammar  School.  He  came  to  college  from 
New  York  City. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  spent  about  six  months  in  Europe,  and 
on  his  return  went  into  business  in  New  York  City.  In  1871  he 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Augustus  Marsh  &  Company, 
wholesale  grocers,  with  which  he  remained  till  1883,  when  he  with- 
drew for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  banking,  forming  with 
Charles  W.  Durant,  Jr.,  and  Joseph  W.  Collins  the  firm  of  Durant, 
Marsh  &  Company.  The  firm  afterwards  became  C.  C.  Marsh 
&  Company. 

He  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  12,  1877,  to  Emma 
Maria  Rees,  and  had  two  sons :  Arthur  Rees,  born  July  20,  1879 ; 
Douglass,  born  May  19,  1886. 

Charles  C.  Marsh  died  of  Bright's  disease,  after  a  very  brief 
illness,  on  November  2y,  1890,  in  New  York  City. 
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*  Edward  Spencer  Mead 

Son  of  E.  M.  Mead  and  Elizabeth  (Hoe)  Mead,  was  born  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  January  10,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Collegiate  School,  71  West  Fourteenth  Street,  New  York 
City. 

Entering  Yale  at  seventeen,  Mead  was  one  of  the  younger  mem- 
bers of  the  class.  He  was  a  quiet,  unassuming,  gentlemanly 
youth,  and  few  of  his  classmates  at  first  appreciated  the  brave 
and  manly  spirit  which  actuated  him.  A  favorite  nephew  of 
Richard  Hoe,  the  famous  inventor  and  manufacturer  of  the  great 
Hoe  Power  Press,  he  was  called  in  a  short  time  to  leave  the  class 
for  some  months  to  care  for  a  son  of  Mr.  Hoe,  whose  health 
required  a  sojourn  in  a  milder  climate.  His  absence  on  this 
regretted  but  pleasant  duty  was  one  reason  why  for  a  considerable 
time  Mead  was  but  little  known  among  his  classmates  generally. 
Returning  to  Yale,  he  was  of  course  under  great  disadvantages : 
yet  taking  up  his  task  courageously,  he  soon  attained  a  good  rank 
as  a  student.  His  sterling  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  quickly 
endeared  him  to  all  who  had  the  good  fortune  to  be  associated 


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with  him  intimately.  He  was  ever  true  and  sincere,  and,  as  a 
natural  corollary,  brave  and  high-spirited. 

Soon  after  graduation  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Frank 
H.  Dodd,  in  the  business  of  book  publishing,  in  which  he  was 
engaged  at  the  time  of  his  death,  as  one  of  the  members  of  the 
house  of  Dodd,  Mead  &  Company .  Assuming  quietly  the  duties 
and  burdens  of  active  life,  Mead  soon  developed  excellent  business 
ability,  as  well  as  fine  literary  taste. 

During  a  residence  for  a  considerable  time  in  France,  aided 
by  much  study,  he  acquired  an  excellent  knowledge  of  the  best 
and  purest  French  literature  and  a  fine  command  of  the  language. 
Several  admirable  translations  of  French  works  were  prepared  by 
him  and  issued  under  a  iwm  dc  plume.  No  better  testimony  to 
the  purity  of  his  character,  as  well  as  the  high  quality  of  his  liter- 
ary taste,  can  be  given  than  is  shown  in  the  selection  of  these 
works.  They  are  admirable  in  artistic  merit  and  in  the  moral 
tone  pervading  them.  Much  other  literary  work  of  a  high  char- 
acter was  performed  by  him,  but  such  was  his  modesty  that  few 
outside  of  his  most  intimate  friends  knew  that  it  was  the  product 
of  his  pen. 

The  amount  and  character  of  the  work  done  by  Mead  is 
remarkable,  especially  in  view  of  the  fact  that  for  many  years, 
almost  for  his  entire  life  of  adult  manhood,  he  was  in  feeble  health, 
and  much  of  the  time  a  confirmed  invalid. 

In  May,  1870,  he  was  married  to  Susie  Abbott,  daughter  of  the 
famous  author,  John  S.  C.  Abbott. 

Edward  S.  Mead  died  at  Southampton,  L.  I.,  January  10,  1894. 


David  MacGregor  Means 

Son*  of  Rev.  James  Means  (Bowdoin  College  1833)  and  Elizabeth 
Phebe  Means.  His  father  was  a  well-known  teacher,  and  was  for  several 
years  Principal  of  Lawrence  Academy  at  Groton,  Mass.  When  the  Civil 
War  broke  out,  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  hospital  chaplain  at 
Xewbern,  X.  C.  He  had  always  been  interested  in  the  negro  slaves,  and 
when  thousands  of  them  came  into  the  Union  lines  he  was  made  Super- 
intendent of  Freedmen,  with  rank  of  Captain.  This  was  a  position  for 
which  he  was  especially  well  fitted.  The  work  of  caring  for  so  many 
freedmen  was  overwhelming,  and  he  broke  down  under  the  burden  and 
died  at  Xewbern,  April  6,  1863,  at  the  age  of  fifty  years. 


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David  MacG.  Means  was  born  in  Groton,  Mass.,  May  I,  1847. 
When  he  came  to  college  the  family  residence  was  at  Andover, 
Mass.,  and  he  was  prepared  at  Phillips  Academy. 

In  College  he  gave  special  attention  to  writing.  He  had 
articles  in  the  Yale  Literary  Magazine,  and  was  the  avTthor  of 
the  "Tragedy  of  Antigone"  presented  at  the  Wooden  Spoon 
Exhibition. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  Lawrenceville,  N.  J., 
one  year  in  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  one  year  at  Wolcott- 


ville,  Conn.  He  then  spent  one  year  in  study  in  Germany,  and 
two  at  the  Theological  Seminary  at  Andover.  In  September, 
1874,  he  became  connected  with  the  Theological  Seminary 
in  New  Haven,  giving  also  special  attention  to  the  study 
of  political  science.  During  the  winter  term  of  1875  he 
was  Instructor  of  the  Sophomore  Class  in  Latin  in  Yale  Col- 
lege. The  following  year  he  was  appointed  to  one  of  the  Fellow- 
ships at  Johns  Hopkins  University.  In  1877  he  was  made 
Professor  of  Political  Science  at  Middlebury  College,  Vt.,  where 
he  remained  till  the  close  of  the  college  year  in  1880,  when  he 
removed  to  New  York  City  and  began  practice  as  a  lawyer. 


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For  many  years  he  wrote  reviews  of  books  and  editorials  for  the 
Nation  and  Evening  Post,  and  contributed  articles  to  various 
magazines.  He  has  published  three  books,  the  first  under  the 
assumed  name  of  Henry  Champernowne : 

"The  Boss,  an  Essay  upon  the  Art  of  Governing  American  Cities."     New 

York.     George  H.  Richmond.     1894. 
"Industrial   Freedom,   with   an    Introduction   by   Hon.   David   A.    Wells." 

New  York.     D.  Appleton  &  Co.     1897. 
"The  Methods  of  Taxation  compared  with  the  Established  Principles  of 

Justice."     New  York.     Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.     1009. 

In  1898-99  Means  gave  a  course  of  eight  lectures  on  Govern- 
ment before  the  Lowell  Institute,  and  in  191 1  he  gave  another 
course  at  Colorado  College.  Professor  Lawrence  Lowell,  now 
President  of  Harvard  University,  was  so  well  pleased  with  "The 
Boss"  that  he  used  it  in  his  classes  at  Harvard,  and  "The 
Methods  of  Taxation"  is  used  as  a  text-book  at  Princeton. 

In  1912  he  received  the  degree  of  L.H.D.  from  Hobart  College. 
Since  1894  his  summer  home  has  been  at  Middlebury,  Vt,  and 
that  is  his  permanent  address.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Century 
Association  in  New  York,  and  in  winter  may  usually  be  addressed 
there.     In  1905  and  1906  he  traveled  in  Europe  with  his  family. 

He  was  married  in  Philadelphia,  April  5,  1877,  to  Laura  Haven, 
and  has  two  daughters:  Margaret  Appleton,  born  May  30,  1887, 
at  Summit,  X.  J.;  and  Elinor  Haven,  born  November  12,  1888, 
at  the  same  place.  They  were  graduated  at  the  Kent  Place  School 
there  in  1905,  and  at  Smith  College  in  1910. 


Elisha  Wright  Miller 

Son  of  Charles  Eliott  and  Emily  (Clark)  Miller,  and  brother  of  Eliott 
Saunders  Miller  (Yale  College  1873),  Hiram  Allen  Miller  (Sheffield 
Scientific  School  1876)  and  Charles  Miller  (Yale  College  1879),  and 
cousin  of  George  Douglas  Miller  (Yale  College  1870).  The  family  is  of 
English  origin.  Two  brothers  settled  in  Springfield,  Mass.  Descendants 
of  one  removed  to  Middlebury,  Vt.,  and  later  to  Williston,  Vt.,  where 
Charles  Eliott  Miller,  father  of  our  classmate,  was  born,  June  15,  1808. 
His  mother,  Emily  Clark,  daughter  of  Wright  Clark,  was  born  at 
Royalton,  Vt.,  July  7,  1821.  The  Clark  family  was  from  Connecticut 
stock. 

Elisha  W.  Miller  was  born  in  Williston,  Vt.,  October  29,  1845, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Academy  in  that  town. 


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From  September,  1863,  to  April,  1864,  he  was  a  member  of  '67. 
He  joined  the  Class  of  '68  in  May,  1865.  He  was  awarded  first 
prizes  in  Mathematics  in  Freshman,  Sophomore  and  Senior  years, 
a  Clarke  Premium  for  the  solution  of  problems  in  ^Practical 
Astronomy  in  Senior  year,  first  prize  in  Senior  Composition,  and 
second  prize  in  Senior  Debate.  He  had  Philosophical  rank  in 
scholarship,  presented  a  Poem  at  Junior  Exhibition,  was  a  Com- 
mencement speaker  and  one  of  the  six  Townsend  speakers  for  the 
DeForest  Gold  Medal. 


During-  the  first  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  Stamford 
and  in  Danielson,  Conn.,  and  then  became  a  student  at  the  Yale 
Theological  Seminary,  where  he  was  graduated  in  May,  1872. 

He  was  ordained  as  a  Congregational  minister  at  Hersey,  Midi.. 
October  23,  1873.  During  the  twelve  years  succeeding  his  grad- 
uation from  the  Theological  Seminary,  he  served  as  pastor  of 
Congregational  churches  at  the  following  places:  South  Royalton, 
Vt,  1872-73;  Hersey  and  Reed  City,  Mich.,  1873-74;  Rockford, 
Mich.,  1874-77;  Big  Rapids,  Mich.,  1877-82;  and  Clinton,  Mich., 
1882-84.  For  seven  years  (1884-91)  he  was  State  Sunday  School 
Superintendent,    for   Michigan,   of    the    Congregational    Sunday 


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School  and  Publishing  Society.  In  1891  he  became  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Eaton  Rapids,  Mich.,  where  he  con- 
tinued until  1896,  when  he  removed  to  Carson  City,  Mich.,  to 
serve  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  there.  In  February, 
1898,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Douglas.  Mich.  In  1906  he  removed  to  Wakefield, 
Kansas,  and  two  years  later  to  Riviera,  Nueces  County,  Texas. 

From  1879  to  1882  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education 
at  Big  Rapids.  He  has  furnished  numerous  articles  for  religious 
and  secular  papers,  and  has  edited: 

"A     Catechism     for    Children's    Training    Classes,"     published    by    the 
Congregational  Sunday  School  and  Publishing  Society,  1887. 

He  was  married  at  Ada,  Mich.,  July  6,  1876,  to  Carrie  E. 
Livingston,  and  has  a  daughter,  Laura  Livingston,  born  at  Clinton, 
November  12,  1883,  now  a  teacher  in  the  Jackson  (Mich.)  High 
School. 


Frank  Moore 

Son  of  Reuben  and  Margaret  T.  (Riddle)  Moore.  His  father  was 
of  English,  and  his  mother  of  Irish  descent. 

Frank  Moore  was  born  in  St.  Clair,  Mich.,  September  6,  1845, 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary,  entered  Yale  with 
'67,  remaining  with  that  class  a  year  and  one  term,  and  joined  '68 
at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year.  He  was  awarded  a  prize 
in  Sophomore  Declamation,  and  was  Vice-President  of  Linonia 
in  Senior  year. 

After  graduation  he  spent  six  months  in  a  law  office  in  Detroit, 
and  subsequently  became  bookkeeper  in  a  lumber  yard  at  Toledo, 
Ohio.  In  1871  he  gave  up  his  position  in  Toledo  and  returned 
to  Detroit.  He  continued  in  the  lumber  business  in  that  city,  and 
afterwards  in  Saginaw  and  St.  Clair,  till  1879,  when  he  purchased 
the  St.  Clair  Republican,  a  weekly  paper,  which  he  continued  to 
edit  and  publish  till  1895.  He  has  been  twice  Postmaster  of  St. 
Clair,  and  held  that  office  for  about  nine  years.  He  was  first 
appointed  June  1,  1881,  and  served  till  April  1,  1886.  In  March, 
1890,  he  was  appointed  for  a  second  term  and  served  until  April 
1,  1894.  He  was  in  the  Michigan  Legislature  two  terms,  1899- 
1900,  and  1901-02. 


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In  1887  he  united  with  a  number  of  other  citizens  of  St.  Clair 
in  forming  a  company  which  was  incorporated  under  the  name 
of  the  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  Company,  of  which  he  was  elected 
Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Since  disposing  of  his  paper,  thisjbusi- 
ness  has  received  his  entire  attention. 

He  spends  the  winters  on  the  Pacific  coast.  In  the  winter  of 
1913-14  he  lived  first  at  3106  Harvard  Boulevard,  Los  Angeles, 
later  at  1229  S.  Bonnie  Brae  Street,  Los  Angeles. 


He  was  married  June  II,  1873,  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  to  Emily 
Sprague  Parmelee,  who  was  born  June  20,  1847,  at  Chesterfield, 
Ohio,  and  educated  at  Mount  Holyoke  College.  Children :  Laura, 
born  January  19,  1875,  at  Saginaw;  Franklin,  born  September  6, 
1877;  Margaret  E.,  born  November  28,  1879;  Emily  C,  born 
January  4,  1885.     The  last  three  were  born  at  St.  Clair. 

Mrs.  Moore  died  at  Castile,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1898,  nine  days 
after  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  her  wedding,  and  on  the 
fifty-first  anniversary  of  her  birth. 

Laura  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Michigan  in  June, 
1899,  and  for  three  years  had  a  position  in  the  Congressional 
Library  at  Washington. 


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Franklin,  when  quite  young,  entered  the  employ  of  the  Diamond 
Crystal  Salt  Company  at  St.  Clair,  and  having  acquired  a  good 
knowledge  of  the  business,  now  holds  an  important  position  with 
that  company.  He  was  married  June  27,  1905,  to  Jeanette 
Harkness,  and  has  three  children:  Margaret  E.,  born  April  22, 
1906;  Franklin  H.,  born  September  1,  1907;  Jane  P.,  born  April 
22,  1912. 

Margaret  E.  attended  Olivet  College  three  years,  but  did  not 
graduate.  June  27,  1905,  she  was  married  to  Henry  J.  Phelps, 
wlin  is  in  the  employ  of  a  wholesale  dry  goods  firm  in  Detroit. 

Emily  C.  was  graduated  from  Wellesley  College  in  June,  1908. 
She  taught  three  years  and  a  half  at  Albert  Lea,  Minn. 


Oliver  Cromwell  Morse 


Son  of  Richard  Cary  Morse  (Yale  College  1812),  editor  of  the  New 
York  Observer,  and  Louisa  (Davis)  Morse.  He  belongs  to  the  seventh 
generation  of  the  direct  descendants  of  Anthony  Morse,  who  came  to 
this  country  in  1635  from  Marlboro,  Wiltshire,  England,  and  settled  in 
Newbury,  Mass.  His  grandfather,  Rev.  Dr.  Jedediah  Morse,  was  the 
first  American  geographer,  and  therefore  known  as  the  "Father  of  Ameri- 
can  Geography."    His   grandmother,   wife   of    Dr.   Jedediah,   was   grand- 


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daughter  of  Samuel  Finlay,  fourth  President  of  Princeton  College.  Their 
sons  were  Professor  S.  F.  B.  Morse,  known  as  the  inventor  of  the  elec- 
tric telegraph;  Sidney  E.  Morse,  and  Richard  Cary  Morse,  father  of  our 
classmate,  who  were  founders  and  co-editors  of  the  New  York  Observer. 
His  grandfather,  father  and  uncles  were  all  graduates  oi^-Yale,  as  were 
also  his  three  brothers,  Sidney  E.  Morse  of  1856,  Rev.  Richard  C.  Morse 
of  1862,  and  William  H.  Morse  of  1867. 

Oliver  C.  Morse  was  born  in  New  York  City,  September  18, 
1847,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
In  college  he  took  prizes  in  Sophomore  year  in  Declamation,  and 
in  Junior  year  in  Debate.  In  Sophomore,  Junior,  and  Senior 
years  he  rowed  on  the  Yaruna  gig  crew.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Junior  Promenade  Committee. 

After  graduation,  he  spent  the  summer  of  1868  in  Germany,  and 
the  academic  year  1868-69  at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New 
York  City.  From  August,  1869,  to  September,  1871,  he  studied 
in  Europe,  chiefly  at  the  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Leipsic.  The 
following  year  was  spent  in  travel  in  European  countries  and  in 
Palestine.  While  a  student  in  Leipsic  he  organized,  and  for  six 
months  superintended,  the  second  Sunday  School  for  German 
children  ever  established  on  the  American  plan  in  the  Kingdom 
of  Saxony.  The  winter  of  1872  he  passed  in  study  in  Beirut, 
Syria,  and  in  the  following  spring  made  a  trip  through  the  Holy 
Land.  On  the  way  home,  at  the  request  of  the  Foreign  Sunday 
School  Association,  he  spent  July  and  August  in  Hungary,  where 
he  organized  in  the  principal  cities  of  that  country  eight  Sunday 
Schools. 

In  anticipation  of  his  Sunday  School  work  in  Hungary,  he  had 
had  a  few  simple  rules  for  organizing  and  conducting  a  Sunday 
School  translated  into  Hungarian,  and  on  his  arrival  in  Beirut, 
Dr.  Van  Dyke,  the  translator  of  the  Bible  into  the  Arabic  lan- 
guage, translated  these  rules  into  Arabic  and  published  them  in  a 
journal  which  he  edited  and  which  had  a  circulation  throughout 
the  Turkish  Empire  and  Lower  Egypt.  A  thousand  extra  copies 
of  the  paper  containing  these  rules  were  struck  off  for  Morse  to 
distribute  at  various  points  in  Palestine.  In  Bethel  and  in  Ramoth 
Gilead  he  called  together  the  officers  of  little  mission  churches, 
with  the  children,  and  explained  to  them  the  nature  of  Sunday 
School  work ;  and  in  Jerusalem,  Dr.  Klein,  a  representative  of  an 
English  missionary  society  and  discoverer  of  the  Moabite  stone, 


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called  the  young;  people  of  his  mission  together  one  Sunday  and 
had  them  organized  into  a  Sunday  School,  the  first  ever  formed 
in  Jerusalem.  Morse's  Arab  traveling  companion,  a  graduate  of 
the  Syrian  Protestant  College  in  Beirut,  who  acted  as  his  inter- 
preter, became  so  much  interested  in  this  method  of  Christian 
work  that  he  resolved  that,  if  ever  he  became  a  native  pastor,  he 
would  make  much  of  the  Sunday  School,  which  determination  he 
afterwards  carried  into  effect  as  pastor  of  the  church  in  Zahleh 
in  Coelo-Svria. 

Morse  studied  during  the  winter  of  1872-73  at  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary  and  in  the  spring  of  1874  completed  his 
theological  studies  at  Union  Seminary.  Till  1875  he  supplied 
the  pulpit  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Greenport,  L.  I. 

In  1876  he  became  General  Secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.  In  the  fall  of  1878  he  accepted  a  call  to  a 
similar  position  in  connection  with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  where  he  remained  till  the  spring  of  1881,  when  he 
took  the  secretaryship  of  the  Association  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
which  he  retained  till  April,  1884.  He  was  temporarily  con- 
nected with  the  work  of  the  New  York  City  Y.  M.  C.  A.  from 
May  to  November,  1884.  During  the  winter  of  1884-85  he 
preached  in  various  pulpits,  with  a  view  of  returning  to  the 
ministry.  During  the  summer  of  1885  he  assisted  Rev.  Dr.  F.  F. 
Ellinwood  in  editing  the  Foreign  Missionary,  published  by  the 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  He  then  accepted  an 
invitation  to  become  the  acting  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  for  one  year,  from  September,  1885, 
to  August,  1886.  In  the  fall  of  1886  he  returned  to  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
work,  accepting  the  position  of  Assistant  State  Secretary  of  the 
New  York  Associations.  This  office  he  resigned  in  the  summer 
of  1887,  to  accept  the  position  of  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the 
School  for  Christian  Workers  (at  Springfield,  Mass.),  and  of 
Instructor  in  Christian  Evidences  and  in  Old  and  New  Testament 
Canons.  In  1890,  when  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
Department  of  this  School  had  become  a  separately  incorporated 
institution,  he  was  appointed  Secretary  and  instructor  in  both 
schools  for  one  year,  at  the  end  of  which  he  severed  his  connection 
with  the  School  for  Christian  Workers,  to  devote  himself  entirely 
to  the  interests  of  the  International  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Training  School. 
From  1898  to  1904  he  was  Vice-President  of  Rollins  College,  at 


204  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Winter  Park,  Florida.  During-  the  following  year  he  was  Vice- 
President  of  the  Bible  Teachers'  Training  School  in  Xew  York, 
and  from  1905  to  1907  was  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Bible 
League  of  North  America.  In  1907  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business.  In  September,  1912,  he  became  officially  connected  with 
the  National  Bible  Institute,  and  is  now  Field  Secretary  of  The 
Eastern  Association  School,  for  the  training  of  employed  officers 
of  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations;  office,  125  East  27th 
St.,  New  York  City. 

In  May,  1905,  he  was  invited  to  give  the  Commencement 
Address  at  Rollins  College,  at  the  close  of  which  he  received  the 
Honorary  Degree  of  D.D. 

He  was  married,  June  22,  1881,  to  Ella  Jones,  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  has  six  children:  Richard  Cary,  born  March  18,  1882, 
in  Cleveland;  Marguerite,  born  June  16,  1883,  in  Cleveland; 
Elizabeth,  born  November  26,  1884,  in  New  York  City;  Oliver 
Cromwell,  Jr.,  born  July  3,  1888,  in  Springfield,  Mass. ;  Anthony, 
born  January  23,  1891,  in  Springfield;  Rebecca  Finlay,  born 
December  4,  1899,  in  Norwich,  Conn. 

Richard  was  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in 
1906,  and  was  Captain  of  the  Yale  University  Crew  in  his  Senior 
year.  He  was  also  Secretary  of  Byers  Hall  during  the  last  two 
years  of  his  college  course,  and  for  two  years  after  graduation 
was  on  the  secretarial  staff  of  the  International  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Com- 
mittee, as  Educational  Secretary  of  the  Railroad  Department. 
He  is  now  Assistant  Passenger  Train  Master  of  the  Pittsburgh 
Division  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  On  October 
26,  1909,  he  was  married  to  Margaret  Rupp  of  New  Rochelle, 
N.  Y.,  at  9  Meadow  Lane,  the  bride's  home.  Two  daughters 
have  been  born  to  them :  Margaret  Louise,  in  Greensburg,  Pa., 
April  4,  1912;   Anna  Finlay,  in  Wilkinsburg,  Pa.,  July  5,  1913. 

Marguerite  took  the  four  years'  course  in  Norwich  Free  Acad- 
emy and  the  two  years'  course  in  Dr.  Savage's  Institute  of  Normal 
Physical  Culture  in  New  York.  She  was  for  a  year  teacher  of 
physical  culture  in  the  public  schools  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
for  the  following  year  was  Physical  Director  of  the  Washington 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  She  was  married  December  8,  191 1,  to  William  1 1. 
Walcott,  M.D.,  who  is  settled  in  Rio,  West  Virginia.  A  son, 
William  Hunt  Walcott,  was  born  August  2y,  1913. 


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Elizabeth  was  graduated  from  Mount  Holyoke  in  1907,  and, 
after  one  year  in  the  Congressional  Library,  studied  three  years  in 
the  Woman's  Medical  College  in  Philadelphia  and  completed  her 
medical  studies  in  London,  England,  in  preparation  for  the  work 
of  a  medical  missionary.  On  March  15,  19 13,  she  sailed  for  her 
mission  field  in  British  East  Africa,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Africa  Inland  Mission. 

Oliver  C,  Jr.,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  19 10,  and 
is  now  (1914)  a  teacher  of  mathematics  in  the  new  Yale  College 
at  Changsha,  China. 

Anthony  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1915,  Yale  College. 

Rebekah  is  a  student  in  the  Huntington  High  School  on  Long 
Island. 


George  Albert  Newell 

Son  of  Arthur  W.  and  Cornelia  E.  (Smith)  Newell.  He  traces  his 
descent  from  (1)  Thomas  Newell,  who  came  from  England  prior  to 
1632,  through  (2)  Samuel,  (3)  Samuel,  (4)  Asahel,  (5)  Solomon,  (6) 
Solomon,  (7)  Arthur  W.  His  grandfather,  Solomon  Newell,  was  mar- 
ried to  Sarah  Steadman.  His  mother,  Cornelia  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Newell, 
was  daughter  of  Thomas  Flagg  and  Mary  Ann   (Taylor)   Smith. 


206  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

George  A.  Newell  was  born  in  Medina,  N.  Y.,  January  n,  1846, 
and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Medina  Academy.  In  college  he 
was  interested  in  athletics,  especially  in  baseball.  He  played  left 
field  on  the  Yale  Nine,  and  graduated  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank 
in  scholarship.  •" 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  returned  to  Medina,  where  he  studied 
law,  and  where  he  practiced  as  an  attorney  from  1871  to  1878. 
In  1874  he  was  elected  Police  Justice  and  Justice  of  the  Peace ; 
also  Village  Clerk,  which  office  he  held  four  years.  In  1877  he 
was  elected  County  Clerk  of  Orleans  County,  and  was  reelected 
in  1880,  and  again  in  1883.  November  6,  1884,  he  was  made 
Cashier  of  the  Union  Bank  of  Medina,  and  since  January  1,  1887, 
he  has  devoted  all  his  time  to  the  business  of  the  bank.  On  Janu- 
ary 10,  1893,  he  was  elected  its  President.  In  1888  he  was  chosen 
Village  Treasurer,  and  has  been  reelected  every  year  since,  and 
with  two  or  three  exceptions,  without  contest.  In  November, 
1893,  he  was  elected  Treasurer  of  Orleans  County,  and  was 
reelected  in  1896,  1899,  and  1902. 

His  recreation  has  consisted  of  Masonic  activities.  Having 
become  a  member  of  Medina  Lodge,  No.  336,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in 
April,  1877,  he  served  as  its  Master  in  1880,  has  been  one  of  its 
Trustees  for  several  years,  and  since  1893  its  Secretary.  In  Royal 
Arch  Masonry  he  served  as  High  Priest  for  twenty-seven  years 
consecutively,  probably  the  longest  continuous  service  by  any 
person  in  that  office,  and  is  now  Secretary  of  his  Chapter.  As  a 
Royal  and  Select  Master  he  has  occupied  the  office  of  Master  for 
several  years.  As  a  Knight  Templar,  he  was  in  1891,  1892  and 
1893  Eminent  Commander  of  Genesee  Commandery,  No.  10. 
In  the  Scottish  Rite  he  presided  for  several  years  as  Thrice  Potent 
Master  of  the  Lodge  of  Perfection,  and  in  1895  was  crowned  a 
Thirty-third  Degree  Mason.  In  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York 
he  has  served  as  Grand  Steward,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master, 
and  Trustee,  and  for  his  services  as  Trustee  has  been  made  a 
permanent  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  In  the  Grand  Chapter 
of  New  York,  he  presided  as  Grand  High  Priest  during  1904. 
In  the  Grand  Council  of  New  York,  he  served  as  Grand  Master 
during  the  years  1894  and  1895,  and  since  1903  has  been  its  Grand 
Treasurer.  In  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of 
New  York,  he  was  elected  Grand  Treasurer  in  1898,  and  still 
continues  in  that  office.     He  is  a  permanent  member  of  the  Gen- 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  207 

eral  Grand  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch  Masons  of  the  United  States, 
and  has  served  several  years  on  its  Finance  Committee.  He  has 
passed  through  the  subordinate  offices  of  the  General  Grand 
Council  of  Royal  and  Select  Masters  of  the  United  States,  and 
last  September  was  elected  to  the  third  office  in  that  body. 

In  1874  he  became  a  charter  member  of  the  Alert  Hose  Com- 
pany, and  served  as  an  active  fireman  for  over  thirty  years,  and 
is  now  the  oldest  member  of  its  successor,  the  Alert  Company,  a 
social  club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic  Club  of  New 
York  City. 

Owing  to  the  cares  and  responsibilities  of  civil  and  fraternal 
activities,  he  has  been  unable  to  devote  much  time  to  other  work. 
He  has,  however,  written 

"A  History  of  Early   Freemasonry    in    Orleans    County,    N.    Y." 
"A  History  of  Medina  Lodge   No.  336,  F.  &  A.   M." 
"A  History  of  the  Alert  Hose   Company  and  the  Fire  Department  of 
Medina." 

He  was  married,  September  i,  1886,  to  Anna  E.  McGrath,  at 
Medina,  and  has  five  children:  Gladys  Cornelia,  born  July  5, 
1887;  Frances  Berenice,  born  May  4,  1890;  George  Arthur,  born 
April  3,  1892;  Hildred  Anna,  born  December  11,  1894;  and 
Natalie  Christine,  born  February  1,  1901. 

Gladys  Cornelia  was  married,  November  25,  1908,  to  H.  Blake 
Murray  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  where  they  now  reside. 

George  Arthur,  through  too  violent  exertions  in  athletics  at  high 
school,  was  seized  with  an  attack  of  Bright's  disease  and  heart 
trouble,  which  compelled  him  to  remain  out  of  school  for  a  year. 
Declining  to  return  to  high  school,  he  entered  Hobart  College, 
where  the  year  before,  at  a  meeting-  of  high  schools,  he  had  taken 
the  second  prize  for  running.  Here  he  studied  a  year  and  then 
entered  the  University  of  Illinois,  where  he  is  pursuing  a  course 
in  banking-  and  economics. 

His  other  children  are  residing  at  home,  the  two  youngest 
attending  high  school  and  seventh  grade  respectively. 

*Charles  Page 

Son  of  Thomas  S.  and  Anna  M.  (Liljevalch)  Page,  and  brother  of 
Dr.  Olof  Page  (Yale  College  1864).  His  mother  was  of  Swedish  descent. 
His  father  was  a  noted  physician  of  Valparaiso,  Chile. 


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THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Charles  Page  was  born  in  Valparaiso,  March  12,  1847.  He 
was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  J.  G.  Lyons,  West  Haverford, 
Pa.,  and  entered  the  class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 

In  college  he  was  scholarly  and  athletic,  doing  his  class-room 
work  thoroughly,  but  without  the  slightest  regard^to  rank.  He 
was  Treasurer  of  the  '68  Boat  Club,  rowed  in  the  Varuna  gig 
and  on  the  class  shell  crew,  and  played  center  field  on  the  Yale 
Nine. 


After  graduation  he  spent  fourteen  months  in  Europe,  attending 
law  lectures  at  the  Universities  of  Brussels  and  Berlin.  On  his 
return  he  continued  his  law  studies  in  San  Francisco,  Cal..  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1872,  and  for  forty  years  was  a  busy  and 
successful  lawyer  in  that  city,  becoming  one  of  the  best  known 
and  most  highly  respected  members  of  the  San  Francisco  Bar. 
In  1896  he  became  associated  with  Mr.  E.  J.  McCutchen,  and 
subsequently  these  were  joined  by  Mr.  Samuel  Knight  and  Mr, 
Warren  Olney,  Jr.,  and  the  firm  of  Page,  McCutchen,  Knight  & 
Olney  was  formed. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  209 

Page's  specialty  was  admiralty  cases,  and  he  was  the  most 
prominent  admiralty  attorney  on  the  Pacific  coast,  having  an 
international  reputation.  Among  his  most  important  cases  the 
following  may  be  mentioned.  In  1891,  when  United  States 
officers  seized  the  steamboat  Itata,  belonging  to  Chilean  insur- 
gents, who  were  finally  successful  in  the  war.  Page  was  employed 
to  defend  the  captain  of  the  vessel.  A  few  years  later  he  was 
counsel  for  Gen.  Antonio  Ezeta,  commander  of  the  government 
forces  of  Salvador  in  the  revolution  of  1894,  when  his  extradi- 
tion and  that  of  four  other  refugees  was  sought  from  the  United 
State>  by  the  new  republic.  He  was  also  counsel  for  the  owners 
of  Mission  Rock  in  their  controversy  with  the  United  States 
government.  He  successfully  prosecuted,  through  the  Circuit 
Court  of  Appeals,  the  case  now  known  as  the  Germanicus. 

Other  important  admiralty  cases  in  which  Page  played  a  con- 
spicuous part  wrere  those  arising  out  of  the  loss  of  the  Rio  de 
Janeiro  in  San  Francisco  Harbor  on  Washington's  Birthday, 
1901  ;  the  salving  of  the  Manchuria,  which  went  ashore  a  number 
of  years  ago  on  one  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands ;  the  collision 
between  the  steam  schooner  San  Pedro  and  the  steamship 
Columbia,  in  which  a  large  number  of  lives  were  lost;  and  the 
losses  of  the  Corona  and  Pomona  on  the  Humboldt  Bar.  Page's 
last  appearance  in  court  was  as  counsel  for  the  steamship  Beaver, 
in  the  case  arising  out  of  the  collision  of  that  steamer  and  the 
Norwegian  steamer  Selja,  which  took  place  off  the  Golden  Gate 
in  November  of  1910. 

Page  attended  the  International  Maritime  Conference  at  the 
Hague  in  1909  as  one  of  the  American  delegates,  and  addressed 
the  Conference  upon  the  "Hartes"  Act. 

He  was  married  at  San  Francisco,  September  12,  1877,  to 
Sallie  H.  Myers,  daughter  of  Gen.  William  Myers,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
had  two  children  : 

Charles  Randolph,  born  May  24,  1878,  was  graduated  from 
Yale  College  in  1900,  and  is  now  with  the  Fireman's  Fund  Insur- 
ance Company  of  San  Francisco.  He  was  married  March  24, 
1904,  in  San  Francisco,  to  Louise  Hoffacker,  daughter  of  Bernard 
and  Lavina  Hoffacker,  and  has  four  sons,  all  born  in  San 
Francisco:  Charles,  November  11,  1904;  Edward  Bradford, 
October  27,  1905;  John  Randolph,  January  21,  1910;  Stanley 
Arthur,  November  16,  191 1. 
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2IO  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Henry  Stanley,  born  March  3,  1885,  was  educated  at  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Institute  of  Technology,  and  has  a  responsible  position 
with  the  Union  Gas  Engine  Company  in  San  Francisco. 

Charles  Page  died  of  pneumonia  at  his  residence  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, on  February  26,  191 2.  Among  his  bequests-  was  one  of 
five  thousand  dollars  to  the  Yale  Alumni  University  Fund,  and 
another  of  the  same  amount  for  the  Golden  Gate  Park.  He  left 
bequests  also  to  the  Seamen's  Institute,  to  the  Golden  Gate 
Orphanage  and  Industrial  Farm,  and  to  Mount  Zion  Hospital. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Yale  Alumni  University  Fund 
Association,  in  their  Twenty-third  Annual  Report,  said : 

"The  report  for  the  year  would  be  incomplete  without  a  special  reference 
to  the  bequest  of  the  late  Charles  Page  of  the  Class  of  1868,  amounting 
to  $5,000.  The  Board  wishes  to  express  its  appreciation  of  this  generous 
gift,  no  less  because  of  its  direct  help  to  Yale,  but  because  it  again 
emphasizes  the  great  potentialities  of  this  unostentatious  method  of 
building  up  the  University." 

Page  was  President  of  the  California  Title  Insurance  and 
Trust  Company,  and  a  Director  of  the  Fireman's  Fund  Insur- 
ance Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union  Club 
and  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Yale  Club  of  California. 

His  life  was  simple  and  open.  He  was  a  genuine  man,  and  had 
nothing  to  conceal.  He  had  high  regard  for  his  profession  and 
always  treated  his  opponents  with  respect,  being  always  fair  and 
honorable  towards  them.  In  the  court  room  he  was  courteous 
and  amiable,  and  never  allowed  himself  to  become  ruffled  or  irri- 
table. His  self-control  was  perfect.  The  legal  firm  of  which 
he  was  the  head  was  the  largest  in  California  and  had  a  world- 
wide reputation.  No  lawyer  in  San  Francisco  stood  higher  than 
Page  in  the  affections  of  his  professional  brethren  or  in  the 
esteem  of  the  courts.  His  death  came  to  his  associates  as  a  per- 
sonal bereavement,  and  their  sense  of  loss  was  most  keen,  a  loss 
for  which  there  was  no  recompense. 

Mr.  Samuel  Knight,  for  many  years  Page's  law  partner,  wrote 
respecting  his  life: 

"There  was  perhaps  no  one  who  stood  higher  at  the  Bar  here  at  the 
time  of  his  death  than  did  Mr.  Page.  He  had  the  reputation  of  being 
not  only  a  very  good  lawyer,  and  a  safe  and  experienced  adviser,  hut 
a  man  who  cherished  and  practiced  the  highest  ideals  of  his  profession. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  211 

As  you  know,  he  was  of  a  very  kindly  nature,  which  showed  itself  in  his 
dealings  with  his  fellow  practitioners,  and  by  no  one  was  this  more 
appreciated  than  by  the  younger  members  of  the  Bar,  to  whom  a  kindly 
word  of  assistance  means  much  in  many  instances.  He  was  a  man  of 
charitable  instincts,  and  many  are  the  people  and  charities  which  he  has 
in  one  way  or  another  assisted.  His  integrity  was  unquestioned;  and 
he  despised  sham  and  subterfuges. 

"I  recall  that,  on  one  recent  occasion,  he  criticized  severely  an  attorney 
with  whom  he  was  associated  in  a  case,  who  was  anxious  to  have  a  plead- 
ing interposed  which  to  Mr.  Page  seemed  ambiguous.  His  associate  said 
that  he  had  framed  the  pleading  designedly  so.  Mr.  Page  retorted  that 
he  was  not  accustomed  to  practice  law  in  that  way,  and  that  it  was  his 
practice  never  to  let  his  position  remain  in  doubt  in  any  case  which  he 
undertook  to  prosecute  or  defend." 

The  following:  tribute  is  from  the  San  Francisco  Recorder  of 


'6 


February  28,  191 


"To  those  who  knew  him  most  intimately,  Mr.  Page  was  a  man  of  most 
charming  and  affable  personality.  He  was  a  very  scholarly  man  and  a 
great  student  and  linguist,  speaking  Spanish,  French  and  German  fluently. 

"As  a  lawyer  he  occupied  a  foremost  position  at  the  Bar;  as  an  advo- 
cate he  was  noted  for  his  clarity  of  reasoning  and  his  forcefulness  of 
statement.  Always  courteous  to  court  and  counsel,  he  was  yet  keenly 
insistent  for  the  cause  of  his  clients.  In  his  death  there  is  removed  from 
the  Bar  of  San  Francisco  one  of  its  most  brilliant  figures,  and  from  the 
community  a  splendid  man  and  foremost  citizen." 

At  a  gathering  of  the  Bar  of  San  Francisco  on  Thursday,  May 
23,  19 1 2,  to  pay  a  tribute  of  respect  and  affection  to  the  memory 
of  our  classmate,  Mr.  Sidney  V.  Smith  said : 

"Both  as  counselor  and  advocate  he  manifested  all  the  qualities  of  a 
sound,  fearless,  highly  trained  lawyer,  reaped  largely  of  the  fruits  of  his 
professional  labor,  won  the  confidence  of  his  clients  and  the  respect  of  the 
courts.  In  all  his  dealings  with  men,  whether  as  President  of  the  Pacific 
Union  Club,  or  founder  of  the  Yale  Club,  or  Director  of  the  Fireman's 
Fund  Insurance  Company,  or  President  of  the  California  Title  Insurance 
and  Trust  Company,  he  revealed  such  a  force  of  character,  undoubted 
integrity,  and  sound  judgment  as  commanded  the  admiration  and  confi- 
dence of  all  those  who  were  connected  with  him.  Happily  married,  with 
a  charming  home,  he  rounded  out  a  full  and  honorable  and  happy  life, 
and  left  as  an  example  and  a  legacy  to  his  sons  his  own  unblemished 
reputation. 

"His  opinions  on  commercial  law  were  read  and  valued  in  Liverpool 
and  London.  He  had  a  world-wide  reputation  as  an  admiralty  and  marine 
insurance  lawyer,  which  came  very  largely  from  his  painstaking,  laborious 
way  of  going  slowly,  thinking  carefully  and  quietly,  and  putting  down 
on  paper,  where  he  could  see  it  with  his  own  eye,  the  process  of  thought. 


212  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

"He  conducted  his  own  legal  investigations.  With  a  staff  of  young 
men  about  him  upon  whom  he  could  have  called  at  any  moment  for  work 
through  the  digests,  for  investigation  of  the  points  he  had  before  him, 
he  preferred  to  do  it  himself,  and  as  long  as  his  strength  lasted,  until 
his  health  failed,  he  conducted  his  own  searches  among  the  cases  and 
authorities,  depending  upon  no  one  else.  The  consequence  was  a  thor- 
oughly equipped,  philosophical  lawyer,  one  who  knew  the  precedents  and 
who  understood  the  principles  of  the  law,  and  was  imbued  with  its  spirit. 
He  was  resourceful  to  an  extraordinary  degree,  so  that  no  matter  what 
kind  of  question  was  presented  to  him,  whether  it  was  a  question  of  a 
sort  with  which  he  was  most  familiar,  growing  out  of  admiralty  law  or 
connected  with  marine  insurance,  or  whether  it  was  a  question  of  real 
estate  law,  with  which  he  had  not  dealt  in  the  early  course  of  his  prac- 
tice,— whatever  it  was,  Page  approached  it  with  a  skill  and  confidence 
born  of  a  thorough  knowledge  of  legal  methods  of  reasoning  and  a  trained 
experience  in  the  application  of  legal  principles  to  concrete  facts. 

"If  I  were  asked  to  point  to  what  I  consider  the  principal  feature  of 
Charles  Page's  character,  I  should  say  it  was  something  higher  than  ability. 
Ability  is  common.  There  is  plenty  of  it  at  the  Bar;  there  is  plenty 
of  energy ;  there  is  plenty  of  fire ;  there  is  plenty  of  labor ;  all  that  is 
common.  But  it  is  not  every  man  that  has  what  I  think  was  Page's 
principal  characteristic.  I  mean  his  warm,  loving  heart.  Of  all  the  men 
I  have  met  at  the  Bar,  I  can  think  of  no  one  who  had  this  wonderful 
quality  to  the  degree  with  which  Page  was  endowed  with  it.  He  was  a 
man  who  loved  his  fellow-men  and  their  companionship,  loved  to  walk 
and  to  talk  with  them,  to  exchange  views  with  them,  to  get  close  to 
them.  And  it  is  the  most  valuable  quality  that  a  professional  man  or  any 
man  can  have;  something  that  he  cannot  cultivate,  something  whose 
value  he  may  recognize  and  that  he  may  yearn  for,  and  long  for  in 
himself ;  but  if  he  has  not  got  it  implanted  in  him,  he  cannot  acquire 
it  by  taking  thought,  any  more  than  he  can  add  a  cubit  to  his  stature. 
Mr.  Page  had  it  naturally ;  it  was  as  easy  for  him  to  get  near  to  his 
fellow-man,  and  to  draw  his  fellow-man  to  him,  as  it  was  to  breathe, 
and  the  result  was  that  he  did  draw  men  to  him.  The  judges  before 
whom  he  practiced  loved  him,  knew  that  he  was  their  friend  in  the  truest 
sense  of  the  word,  and  were  his  friends.  The  clients  that  he  gathered 
about  him  loved  him,  felt  that  they  could  trust  not  only  in  his  ability 
but  in  his  interest  in  themselves  and  in  their  business.  It  was  the  strong- 
est tie  that  could  bind  one  man  to  another,  that  tie  which  comes  from 
the  feeling  that  the  man  that  you  are  dealing  with  is  interested  in  you, 
not  only  in  the  fee  which  he  is  going  to  make  from  you,  but  in  you 
individually  and  personally.  It  is  a  thing  indescribable,  and  yet  I  think 
we  all  recognize  it ;  and  as  we  now  look  back  upon  him,  we  can  under- 
stand why  he  was  always  'Charlie  Page,'  not  Charles  Page,  to  the  people 
who  knew  him,  and  even  to  people  who  did  not  know  him  intimately. 
I  do  not  believe  that  there  is  a  man  that  has  practiced  before  this  court 
who  came  so  close  to  its  members,  who  delighted  so  to  have  them  in  his 
own  house,  who  met  them  so  warmly,  who  so  thoroughly  and  gracefully 
bridged   that   distance  which   sometimes   separates  the  advocate   from   the 


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judge  before  whom  he  practices.  How  that  warm  quality  shines  out  in 
that  clause  of  his  will,  in  which  he  makes  provision  for  a  certain  charity 
as  'a  friendly  thought  of  the  companion  of  many  a  morning  walk,  J.  B. 
Levison' !  See  how  much  that  phrase,  that  unusual  phrase  in  a  lawyer's 
will  conveys;  see  the  picture  that  it  draws  of  Page  walking  to  his  office 
morning  after  morning  with  Levison,  hearing  Levison  talk  to  him  about  his 
favorite  charity,  listening,  not  bored,  but  genuinely  interested,  to  all  that 
Levison  had  to  say,  sympathizing  with  his  friend's  hobby,  and  finally, 
years  after,  when  he  came  to  sit  down  and  in  cold  blood  make  pro- 
vision for  his  family,  he  had  thought,  too,  of  his  friend  and  of  the  thing 
which  lay  close  to  his  friend's  heart.  I  think  it  is  a  beautiful  incident, 
one  that  throws  a  wonderful  light  upon  what  Page  really  was.  Think, 
too,  of  his  humor;  how  he  loved  to  laugh;  how  he  could  raise  a  laugh; 
how  infectious  his  own  was,  how  human  it  was ;  how  free  that  ready  wit 
was  of  all  unkindness,  with  what  unerring  good  taste  and  sanity  he 
risked,  but  never  shocked. 

"As  an  illustration  of  the  warmth  of  his  heart,  I  would  refer  to  his 
attitude  toward  the  young  men  whom  he  gathered  about  him.  His  was 
always  the  most  popular  office,  the  most  sought  for  by  the  graduates 
of  our  law  colleges  intending  to  practice  at  our  Bar.  They  wanted  to  be 
associated  with  him  from  their  reverence  for  him,  from  their  apprecia- 
tion and  respect  for  him,  and  because  they  knew  what  kind  of  a  relation 
would  exist  between  him  and  them.  And  it  was  charming — geniality, 
sympathy,  kindness,  forbearance,  patience,  guidance,  everything  that  a 
young  man  could  ask  for  he  got  from  Page,  and  it  all  came  from  Page's 
heart  and  character  and  was  indicative  in  the  highest  degree  of  what 
he  was." 


I  add  Page's  last  letter  to  the  Class,  dated  November  14,  1910. 

"My  dear  Varick  : 

Your  note  of  invitation  to  a  dinner  of  '68's  survivors,  so  far  as  they 
can  be  got  together,  has  just  reached  me.  A  just  recognition  of  your 
proffered  hospitality  would  call  for  my  thanks  at  an  early  day,  but  more 
urgent  still  in  the  impulse  is  the  thought  that  here  is  the  opportunity  to 
say  a  few  words  of  greeting  to  the  companions  of  more  than  forty  years 
ago. 

"Fate  took  me,  soon  after  graduating,  from  the  scenes  of  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Yale  and  brought  me  to  the  far  away  State  of  California.  Here 
I  have  pursued  my  profession,  here  I  married,  and  here  my  children  have 
grown  up.  It  would  be  treason  in  me  to  regret  that  I  did  not  stay  in 
the  home  of  some  of  the  years  of  my  boyhood.  I  have  prospered,  have 
enjoyed  life,  have  gained  the  good  will  of  my  neighbors,  and  have  known 
that  greatest  of  joys — seeing  my  boys  grow  up  to  be  useful  men.  I  am 
thrice  a  grandfather.  Nevertheless,  again  and  again  during  all  these 
years,  the  thought  has  come  and  still  comes  into  my  mind,  that  it  would 
be  a  great  happiness  were  I  able  to  keep  more  in  touch  with  the  old  days 


214  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

at  Yale  by  meeting  those  I  knew  so  intimately  there  and  by  now  and 
again  taking  a  little  run  up  to  New  Haven.  There  are  not  many  of 
you,  I  imagine,  whom  I  should  know  by  sight.  Few  would  recognize  me. 
Diverse  pursuits  and  interests  in  the  long  interval  have  made  it  impossi- 
ble to  think  that  it  would  be  likely  that  renewed  intercourse  would  revive 
the  same  old  feelings  which  we  had  for  each  other  in  our  young  days ;  but 
the  suggestion  of  the  mind  that  there  is  the  grasp  of  the  hand  to  be  had, 
the  few  words  which  virtually  tell  the  history  of  more  than  one-half 
of  one's  lifetime,  the  rush  of  recollection  of  events  long  ago  buried  in 
forgetfulness — this  is  all  happiness,  though  it  fade  in  an  hour.  For  this 
pleasure,  did  circumstances  permit  it,  I  should  be  glad  to  travel  across 
the  continent.  Nay,  let  me  not  entirely  and  absolutely  refuse  your  kind 
invitation.  Things  may  change  and  I  may  go,  but — now  that  I  appreci- 
ate that  the  date  is  December  1st — it  looks  out  of  the  question. 

"Give  all  manner  of  kind  greetings  to  the  fellows.  I  hope  all  are  well 
and  holding  their  own  yet  against  the  inveterate  enemy  of  every  man — 
time.  Imagine  me  joining  with  you  in  every  toast  to  our  old  College,  to 
all  of  the  faculty,  all  of  the  graduates,  and  all  of  the  students.  May  all 
prosper ! 

Affectionately  your  classmate, 

Chas.  Page." 

Mrs.  Charles  Page's  address  is  2518  Pacific  Avenue,  San 
Francisco. 

Samuel  Parrv 

His  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  came  from  Wales  at  the  end  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  They  were  Quakers  and  settled  amidst  the  William 
Penn  Colony  near  Philadelphia,  where  many  of  his  relatives  still  reside. 
His  mother's  ancestors  came  from  Holland  in  1653  and  settled  on  Long 
Island,  from  which  the  family  extended  into  New  Jersey.  His  father, 
Samuel  Parry,  a  miller,  was  son  of  Samuel  Parry,  a  farmer,  who  lived 
near  Philadelphia.  His  mother,  Selinda  Van  Syckel,  was  daughter  of 
Daniel  Van  Syckel,  a  merchant  of  Milford,  N.  J. 

Samuel  Parry  was  born  March  29,  1845,  at  Lambertville, 
N.  J.,  removed  to  Clinton,  N.  J.,  when  two  years  old,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  academy  at  Blairstown,  N.  J.  He 
was  the  leading  boating  man  in  '68,  rowed  in  the  Varuna  shell 
in  the  Harbor  Races  in  his  Sophomore  year,  was  Commodore 
of  the  Yale  Navy,  and  stroke  oar  of  the  University  Crew  in  1868, 
rowed  in  1867  and  1868  in  the  races  with  Harvard  on  Lake 
Quinsigamond  at  Worcester,  and  was  graduated  with  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  rank  in  scholarship. 


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2I5 


In  1868-69  ne  taught  at  Blairstown  Academy,  then  studied  two 
years  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  and  one  year  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  [872.  April  30,  1873,  he  was  ordained  to  the  gospel  ministry 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Elizabeth,  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Pluck- 
amin  Presbyterian  Church,  at  Pluckemin,  N.  J.,  where  he  con- 
tinued in  the  pastorate  for  thirty-three  years.  On  April  30,  1906, 
Oil  the  thirty-third  anniversary  of  his  ordination  and  installation 


over  this  church,  he  retired  from  active  service  in  the  ministry. 
He  is  engaged  in  historical  studies,  and  preaches  occasionally  as 
opportunity  offers. 

He  delivered  a  historical  discourse  in  the  Pluckamin  Presby- 
terian Church  on  Tuesday,  March  12,  1901,  on  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  its  organization,  in  which  he  sketched  the  history  of 
the  churches  in  the  village  and  vicinity  from  1720,  and  gave  the 
biographies  of  the  pastors  and  most  of  the  deceased  ruling  elders 
since  185 1. 

He  is  Stated  Clerk  of  the  Presbytery  of  Elizabeth,  having  been 
elected  in  1888  and  reelected  every  five  years  since,  and  was  Secre- 


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THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


tary  of  the  Inter-Church  Federation  of  Somerset  County,  N.  J., 
from  its  organization  till  1912,  when  he  refused  reelection.  He 
is  also  Secretary  of  the  Raritan  Ministerial  Association. 

December  1,  1875,  he  was  married,  in  Somerville,  N.  J.,  to 
Harriet  E.  Cornell,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  F.  F.  Cornell,  a  former 
pastor  of  the  Pluckamin  Church,  and  had  one  son,  Samuel  Cor- 
nell, born  March  24,  1881,  died  on  the  25th  of  the  same  month. 


*\Yilliam  Parsons 

Son  of  Judge  William  and  Frances  (Strong)  Parsons.  His  mother 
was  granddaughter  of  Captain   Benaija   Strong,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

William  Parsons  was  born  August  19,  1844,  at  Beech  Creek, 
Clinton  County,  Pa.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  West 
Chester  Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Jubilee 
Committee  and  of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee,  was  Secretary 
of  Linonia,  Lieutenant  of  the  '68  Boat  Club,  and  rowed  (as  bow) 
in  the  Varuna  shell  and  on  the  class  shell  crew  in  Senior  year. 

He  attended  the  Albany  Law  School. one  year,  graduating  in 
1869,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  May  20,  1869,  and  began  practic- 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  21  J 

ing  at  Lock  Haven,  Pa.,  from  which  place  he  had  entered  college. 
He  served  as  Attorney  for  Clinton  County  for  five  years  (1869- 
74),  and  in  the  summer  of  1874  was  elected  District  Attorney  for 
five  years. 

In  1877  he  resigned  the  office  of  District  Attorney  to  become 
editor  of  the  New  Haven  Daily  Register,  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected till  1883.  In  1880  he  was  Delegate  at  Large  from  Con- 
necticut to  the  Democratic  National  Convention.  In  1883  ne 
established  the  Llartford  Telegram  and  in  1884  became  Congres- 
sional Editor  of  the  Washington  Post.  He  was  appointed  in 
June,  1885,  a  Special  Agent  to  investigate  and  examine  into  the 
several  Indian  agencies  of  the  United  States,  and  in  1886  was 
constituted  Umatilla  Commissioner  to  make  a  treaty  with  the 
Umatilla  Indians,  Oregon,  for  opening  their  reservation,  to 
appraise  the  lands  of  the  reservation,  and  to  allot  lands  in  sev- 
eralty to  said  Indians.  He  was  particularly  influential  among 
the  Umatilla  Indians,  whose  counsel  he  was  for  many  years, 
having  appeared  in  their  behalf  before  President  Harrison. 

March  31,  1888,  he  resigned  the  special  Indian  agency  and 
removed  from  Washington,  D.  C,  to  Pendleton,  Oregon,  where 
he  engaged  in  legal  practice  until  1902,  when  he  went  to  the 
Philippines  to  visit  his  son.  Here  he  remained  five  years  as 
supervising  teacher  in  the  Bureau  of  Education.  An  accident 
which  fractured  his  skull,  broke  his  hip  joint  and  right  arm,  so 
impaired  his  strength  that  he  was  no  longer  able  to  endure  a 
tropical  climate  and  the  doctors  ordered  his  return  to  the  States. 
He  was  transferred  in  1907  to  the  School  Department  of  the 
Indian  Service,  and  placed  in  charge  of  the  school  on  the  Yakima 
Indian  Reservation,  Washington,  at  Fort  Simcoe. 

He  wrote  several  valuable  reports  on  Indian  affairs  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Interior,  one  of  which — an  account  of  his 
explorations  in  the  Navajo  Indian  Reservation,  New  Mexico, 
and  of  the  resources  of  that  comparatively  unknown  region — was 
printed  by  Congress.  He  also  wrote  a  series  of  articles  in  1886 
for  the  Portland  Oregonian,  on  the  relations  of  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic Church  to  the  government  of  the  United  States  Indian  Schools. 
In  1902  he  completed  a  ''History  of  Umatilla  County,  Oregon," 
with  a  condensed  history  of  Oregon  and  Washington,  a  quarto 
volume  of  six  hundred  pages,  published  by  the  Northwest  Pub- 
lishing Company  of  Spokane,  Washington. 


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November  26,  1872,  he  was  married,  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to 
Charlotte  Rebecca  Osborn,  daughter  of  Minott  A.  Osborn,  for 
many  years  editor  of  the  New  Haven  Register,  and  sister  of  Col. 
Norris  G.  Osborn  (Yale  College  1880).  Children:  William 
Osborn,  born  at  Lock  Haven,  October  3,  1873;  Mmott  Osborn, 
born  at  Lock  Haven,  September  6,  1875,  died  March  1,  1890; 
Katharine  Osborn,  born  at  Lock  Haven,  August  26,  1877;  Ethel 
Osborn,  born  in  Hartford,  September  1,  1884. 

William  Osborn  Parsons  was  Captain  in  the  Philippine  Con- 
stabulary force  for  several  years.  After  resigning  this  office, 
he  removed  to  San  Francisco  and  enlisted  in  the  Coast  Artillery 
Corps,  67th  Company,  being  finally  discharged  in  April,  191 2,  to 
become  Editor  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Hotel  Gazette,  a  weekly  trade 
paper  published  in  San  Francisco.  He  was  married  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, March  2,  191 2,  by  the  Rev.  Father  Perrin,  to  Delia  Beagle 
of  Pendleton,  Oregon. 

Katharine  Osborn  Parsons  was  married  on  September  18,  1901, 
at  Pendleton,  to  William  House,  M.D.  Children :  Janet  Par- 
sons House,  born  in  Weston,  June  20,  1903,  and  Priscilla  Osborn 
House,  born  September  18,  1909,  in  Portland,  Oregon. 

Ethel  Osborn  Parsons  was  married  December  5,  1907,  in  San 
Francisco,  to  Charles  Erwin  Borden,  and  has  two  children :  Alan 
Osborn  Borden,  born  in  San  Francisco,  October  23,  1908;  Wil- 
liam Parsons  Borden,  born  November  10,  191 2. 

William  Parsons  died  at  his  home  on  the  Reservation  of  the 
Yakima  Indian  Training  School,  Fort  Simcoe,  November  21, 
1908,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years. 

The  following  editorial  is  from  the  Xew  Haven  Journal- 
Courier   of    November    24,    1908: 

"The  news  of  the  death  of  William  Parsons,  a  former  resident  of  this 
city,  recalls  the  lively  political  times  in  Connecticut  twenty-six  years  ago. 
when  the  younger  Democratic  element  of  the  State  wrested  the  control 
of  the  organization  from  the  old  leaders.  The  metamorphosis  was  more 
due  to  the  leadership  of  Mr.  Parsons  in  that  struggle  between  party  fac- 
tions than  to  any  one  else.  His  was  just  the  nature  and  temperament  to 
make  a  fight  of  that  character  successful. 

"He  was  never  what  would  be  technically  known  as  a  newspaper  maker. 
He  was,  however,  an  editorial  writer  of  unusual  force  and  effectivemss. 
It  became  his  self-imposed  task  to  inoculate  the  Democratic  party  of  the 
State  with  more  of  the  spirit  of  progressiveness  than  it  possessed  under 
the  leadership  of  the  older  and  conservative  leaders  who  had  for  years 


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dictated  the  policy  of  the  organization  and  selected  its  standard-bearers. 
He,  with  his  political  counselors,  selected  young  Tom  Waller  of  New 
London  as  the  man  most  likely  to  win  in  the  State  convention. 

"The  convention  which  that  year  nominated  Mr.  Waller  for  governor 
is  still  well  remembered  by  many,  who  have  since  played  but  a  small  part 
in  the  life  of  the  Democratic  party.  No  man  could  have  been  selected 
for  governor  who  was  so  offensive  to  the  old  men  as  he.  They  regarded 
him  as  a  reactionary,  and  they  professed  not  to  know  what  would  hap- 
pen to  the  historic  organization  if  he  were  given  the  reins.  Undismayed 
by  this  forceful  opposition,  Mr.  Parsons  and  his  friends  set  out  to  win 
the  day.  In  a  struggle  which  has  not  its  parallel  in  the  history  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  Connecticut,  the  Waller  faction  made  constant  and 
sensational  gains,  defying  threatened  excommunication  and  scorning 
offers  of  compromise.  In  the  end  they  had  driven  the  old  warriors  of 
the  party  into  the  corner  and  had  forced  them  to  surrender  uncondition- 
ally. Waller  was  the  nominee  of  the  convention,  and  after  a  whirlwind 
campaign,  such  as  he  could  alone  make,  was  elected  by  a  clear  majority 
Over  all  opposing  candidates,  as  required  at  that  time  by  the  State 
constitution. 

"The  character  of  the  fight  Mr.  Parsons  put  up  against  the  Republican 
nominee  and  the  fearlessness  of  his  campaign  for  Mr.  Waller  convinced 
the  State  of  his  ability  as  a  political  leader,  but  when  he  sought  con- 
firmation by  the  Republican  State  Senate  of  his  nomination  by  Governor 
Waller  for  the  insurance  commissionership,  revengeful  human  nature 
asserted  itself  and  he  was  rejected  by  a  large  majority.  The  very  source 
of  his  power  in  the  State  convention  proved  to  be  the  source  of  his 
weakness  before  the  Senate  as  a  formal  nominee  for  an  important  State 
office.  Within  four  years  thereafter  Mr.  Parsons  had  received  an  import- 
ant appointment  to  the  federal  service  at  President  Cleveland's  hands, 
and  he  passed  out  of  the  political  life  of  Connecticut. 

"Of  Mr.  Parsons'  personality  it  can  be  said  with  truth  that  few  men, 
if  any,  have  ever  entered  the  journalistic  life  of  Connecticut  and  within 
so  short  a  time  impressed  themselves  so  indelibly  upon  it.  He  made  firm 
friends  and  determined  enemies,  but  he  was  recognized  by  all  as  a  fear- 
less and  straight  fighter  for  the  truth  as  he  saw  it.  His  death  closes 
an  adventuresome  and  picturesque  career,  a  career  which  found  much  to 
further  shape  it  in  the  breezy  West." 


*Horace  Phillips 

Son  of  Jonathan  Dickinson  and  Lucianna  (Greene)  Phillips.  His 
father,  Jonathan  D.  Phillips,  was  son  of  Horatio  Gates  Phillips,  who 
moved  from  New  Jersey  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  in  1804  and  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Hon.  William  Churchill  Houston.  The  father  of 
Horatio  Gates  Phillips  was  Captain  Jonathan  Phillips  of  the  Second  Regi- 
ment of  the  Continental  Army,  who  served  through  the  war  and  was 
one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  which  mem- 


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bership  has  been  handed  down  to  Horace  Pease  Phillips,  the  eldest  son 
of  our  classmate.  The  Phillips  family  traces  its  ancestry  to  George 
Phillips  of  Boxford,  England,  who  came  with  his  family  to  America 
with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630. 

Lucianna  Greene  was  daughter  of  Charles  Russell  and  Achsah  (Dis- 
brow)  Greene,  who  came  from  Trenton,  N.  J.,  to  Marietta"  on  December 
17,  1788,  and  to  Dayton  in  1820.  The  first  ancestor  of  the  family  was  John 
Greene,  who  came  to  America  on  the  ship  Lyon  in  1631.  He  was  ban- 
ished from  Boston  for  defending  Wheelwright  and  Mrs.  Hutchinson, 
and  was  the  first  President  of  the  Rhode  Island  Society. 


Horace  Phillips  was  born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  April  9,  1847,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Hall  of  that  place,  and  at 
Mount  Pleasant  Academy,  New  York.  He  was  elected  to  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  on  the  ground  of  rank  in  scholarship  on  the  Junior 
Appointment  list. 

From  the  time  of  graduating  until  1874  he  was  engaged  in 
railway  construction  along  the  upper  Mississippi.  During  1S74 
and  1875  he  was  in  Europe,  and  from  1875  to  1888  he  resided  at 
Dayton,  being  connected  with  various  railways  under  construc- 
tion and  reconstruction.     He  built  the  Dayton  &  Southeastern 


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Railroad,  and  had  engineering  charge  of  it  from  [876  till  about 
18S6.  In  1 889  ho  undertook  the  placing  underground  of  all  tele- 
phone wires  in  Chicago,  but  was  forced  t<»  give  Up  the  work  on 
account  of  ill-health.  He  removed  to  Seattle,  Washington,  and 
for  eleven  years  was  engaged  in  engineering  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
He  spent  much  time  at  South  Bend,  Washington,  where  he 
owned  interests  in  the  local  water  works  and  electric  light  plants. 

After  an  illness  of  over  two  years,  he  died  from  nervous 
prostration  at  his  home  in  Seattle,  May  7,  1904,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
seven  years.  He  was  a  man  of  unusual  ability,  upright,  consci- 
entious, and  thorough  in  every  enterprise  which  he  undertook. 

He  was  married  at  Dayton,  January  7,  1876,  to  Nannie  E. 
Pease,  daughter  of  Horace  and  Sarah  Louise  (Bellville)  Pease, 
and  had  six  children:  Charlotte  VanCleve;  Horace  Pease;  Jona- 
than Dickinson,  died  October  17,  1892;  Walter  Bellville;  Luci- 
anna  Greene;   Dorothy  Disbrow. 

Charlotte  VanCleve  received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Stanford 
University  in  1897,  an  artist;  was  married  to  Frederic  Arthur 
Schneider  of  San  Jose,  Cal.,  in  1900,  and  has  had  two  sons : 
Phillips  Sumner,  born  February  7,  1901  ;  Frederic  Arthur,  born 
1905,  died  1909. 

Horace  Pease  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  California 
in  1903,  a  mechanical  engineer;  was  college  apprentice  for  the 
Santa  Fe  system  three  years,  and  is  now  manager  and  superin- 
tendent of  a  manufacturing  plant  in  Reno,  Nevada.  He  was 
married  March  10,  19 10,  to  Mary  May  Thomas,  daughter  of 
Rev.  John  H.  Thomas  (Yale  '68)  of  Dayton,  Ohio,  and  has  two 
daughters:    Elizabeth   Ann,   born    191 1,   and    Mary    May,   born 

1913. 

Walter  Bellville,  educated  at  the  University  of  California,  in 
the  Class  of  1909,  is  an  architect  in  Berkeley. 

Lucianna  Greene,  educated  at  the  University  of  California,  in 
the  Class  of  1909,  resides  in  Berkeley. 

Dorothy  Disbrow  was  graduated  in  1912  from  the  University 
of  California.  She  was  married  to  William  Winter  Salsig  of 
Berkeley,  Cal.,  on  August  30,  191 3,  and  is  now  residing  at  Gualala, 
Cal. 

Mrs.  Horace  Phillips  resides  at  2823  Forest  Avenue,  Berkeley, 
Cal. 


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Thomas  Wilson  Pierce 


His  father  was  Wilson  Pierce,  born  in  Pennsbury  Township,  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  in  1809,  and  died  in  1865.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Harvey 
Levis,  born  in  the  adjoining  Township  of  Birmingham,  Chester  County,  in 
1816,  and  died  in  1879.     They  were  married  in  1835. 

Wilson  Pierce's  father  was  Joshua  Pierce,  of  Pennsbury,  who  married 
Mary,  the  daughter  of  his  neighbor,  Thomas  Wilson,  of  Christiana 
Hundred,  New  Castle  County,  Delaware,  whose  name  our  classmate  bears. 
The  Pierce  family  began  in  America  with  George  Pierce,  who  sailed 
from  Bristol,  following  William  Penn  to  his  province,  about  1685.  He 
formed  a  settlement  to  which  he  gave  the  name  Thornbury,  after  the 
village  in  Gloucestershire  where  his  wife  had  been  born. 

Elizabeth  Harvey  Levis's  father  was  William  Levis,  a  pioneer  in  the 
manufacture  of  hats,  now  a  large  industry  in  Southeastern  Pennsylvania. 
His  ancestry  arrived  in  Pennsylvania  about  1684.  His  wife  was  Rebecca 
Darlington  Brinton,  daughter  of  William  Brinton,  who  was  third  in 
descent  from  Wrilliam  Brinton,  the  first  settler,  who  came  from  the 
neighborhood  of  Birmingham  and  gave  that  name  to  the  Township. 

Thomas  W.  Pierce's  forebears  have  all  been  farmers  except  his  father 
and  his  mother's  father,  and  all  were  members  of  the  Orthodox  Society 
of  Friends  except  his  mother  and  her  father.  A  narrow  circle  of  ten 
miles  will  embrace  the  scene  of  all  their  lives  for  upwards  of  two  hundred 
years. 


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Thomas  W.  Pierce  was  born  August  3,  1845,  m  Dilworthtown, 
in  the  township  of  Birmingham,  Chester  County,  Pa.,  a  place 
about  four  miles  south  of  West  Chester  on  the  Wilmington  road. 
The  village  lies  on  high  ground  a  little  to  the  rear  of  Washing- 
ton's extreme  right  at  the  Battle  of  Brandywine,  and  where  he 
made  his  last  effort  to  stay  the  disaster  of  that  day. 

In  1861  he  went  to  the  West  Chester  Academy  to  prepare 
for  college,  a  purpose  which  he  had  already  formed  in  mind, 
but  with  no  definite  hope  that  it  might  ever  be  realized.  He 
finished  his  preparation  in  1863,  but  was  not  able  to  enter  till  the 
following  year.  In  College  he  took  a  high  rank  in  scholarship, 
lie  had  a  High  Oration  on  the  Junior  Appointment  list,  and  was 
one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition.  At  Commencement  he 
had  raised  his  grade  to  3.31,  i.  e.  above  the  usual  line  of  Philo- 
sophical Oration,  but  owing  to  the  large  number  of  men  of 
Philosophical  standing  in  '68,  he,  with  Davenport  and  Harger, 
received  only  a  High  Oration  appointment. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  in 
West  Chester,  and  was  a  law  student  until  March,  1871,  when  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar  and  began  practice  in  West  Chester, 
where  he  has  been  working  steadily  for  more  than  forty  years. 
He  has  done  well  in  his  profession,  and  has  had  the  best  of 
health.     He  writes: 

"In  my  earlier  professional  life  I  was  often  tempted  to  seek  a  wider 
held.  While  I  might  have  done  better  financially  elsewhere,  I  could 
not  have  lived  more  happily,  and  comfortably,  nor  with  more  healthful 
and  charming  surroundings." 

In  1878  he  was  elected  District  Attorney  for  Chester  County, 
and  served  one  term  of  three  years  from  January  1,  1879.  In 
1890  he  was  the  nominee  of  the  Democrats  and  Independent 
Republicans  for  Congress,  in  the  Seventh  Congressional  District, 
composed  of  Chester  and  Delaware  Counties.  The  district  being 
a  Republican  stronghold,  he  was  not  elected,  but  he  greatly 
reduced  his  opponent's  majority. 

March  11,  1884,  he  was  married,  in  Russellville,  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  to  Sarah  J.  (Ferree)  Woodward,  widow  of  Henry 
Clay  Woodward.  A  son,  Thomas  Wilson,  Jr.,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 24,  1884. 


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Mrs.  Pierce  was  daughter  of  Adam  and  Isabella  (Hunter) 
Ferree.  Her  mother  was  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Jane  Hunter. 
Her  father,  Adam  Ferree,  a  husbandman,  son  of  David  and 
Alary  (Baker)  Ferree,  was  descended  in  direct  line  from  Daniel 
Ferree,  a  manufacturer  living  in  France,  near  the  Rhone.  Daniel 
Ferree  died,  and  his  widow  with  her  six  children  came  to  America 
in  1708.  Four  years  later  she  took  title  to  two  thousand  acres 
of  land  in  Pequea  Valley.  She  died  in  171 6,  and  was  the  first 
one  interred  in  the  plot  she  had  reserved  for  the  family  burial 
place. 


*  Stephen  Pier  son 

Eldest  son  of  Edward  and  Phebe  Elizabeth  (Guerin)  Pierson. 
He  was  born  in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  November  8,  1844.  and  w; 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Morris  Academy. 

He  entered  Yale  in  1861  with  the  Class  of  '65,  but  left  at  the 
close  of  Freshman  year  to  join  the  army,  enlisting  as  a  private 
in  the  Twenty-seventh  New  Jersey  Infantry,  a  nine  months' 
regiment.     He  was  in  Burnside's  Fredericksburg  campaign,  and 


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afterwards  in  Kentucky,  and  when  mustered  out  of  service  he  had 
risen  to  the  rank  of  Second  Lieutenant.  Immediately  after  reach- 
ing home,  he  reenlisted  as  Sergeant-Major  in  the  Thirty-third 
New  Jersey  Infantry,  and  went  West  under  Hooker  He  served 
in  the  campaign  about  Chattanooga,  and  was  with  Sherman  on  the 
whole  of  his  Atlantic  campaign,  the  march  to  the  sea,  the  cam- 
paigns of  the  Carolinas,  and  Joe  Johnston's  surrender.  He  was 
wounded  once,  became  Adjutant  of  the  regiment,  and  was  brevet- 
ted  Captain,  and  afterwards  Major,  for  gallant  conduct,  and  came 
out  of  the  service  in  July,  1865,  the  youngest  officer  in  the 
brigade. 

He  returned  to  college  in  September  following,  joined  '68,  and 
continued  with  the  Class  about  one  year.  In  1888  he  received 
from  Yale  the  degree  of  M.A.,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of 
'68. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  was  a  student  of  medicine  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York  City,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1869,  and  was  appointed  house  physician  at  Belle- 
vue  Hospital.  He  located  as  a  physician  in  Boonton,  N.  J.,  in 
1870,  where  he  built  up  a  lucrative  practice  and  took  an  active 
part  in  the  business  and  social  life  of  the  community.  In  1873 
he  removed  to  Morristown  as  an  associate  with  his  old  preceptor, 
Dr.  William  Quinby,  whom  he  later  succeeded.  Here  he  soon 
had  a  large  practice  and  acquired  a  reputation  as  a  sympathetic 
and  skillful  physician.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Morris  County 
Medical  Society  and  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Medical  Society, 
was  a  leader  in  his  profession,  and  kept  abreast  of  the  best 
thought  of  the  day. 

Dr.  Pierson  was  a  member  of  the  Morristown  Board  of  Edu- 
cation for  more  than  thirty  years,  for  a  part  of  the  time  its 
President,  and  the  excellence  of  the  public  school  system  of  that 
city  is  due  in  no  small  degree  to  him.  He  also  served  for  a  time 
as  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Education.  When  the  All 
Souls'  Hospital  was  established  in  1892,  he  was  appointed  Medical 
Director  and  retained  that  position  till  his  death.  When  the 
Grand  Army  Post  of  Morristown  was  organized,  he  became  a 
member,  was  actively  interested  in  its  affairs,  and  ready  to  aid 
his  needy  comrades.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States  and  of  the  Washington  Association  of  New 
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Jersey,  of  which  he  became  Vice-President.  He  was  a  Director 
of  the  Morris  Aqueduct  Company,  and  was  actively  identified 
with  many  organizations  having  for  their  object  the  betterment 
of  conditions  in  the  community. 

He  was  married  at  Morristown,  September  13,  187a;  to  Amelia 
F.  Cory,  and  had  two  sons:  Edward,  born  at  Boonton,  January 
7,  1872,  died  at  Morristown,  June  12,  1886;  Stephen  Cory,  born 
at  Morristown,  August  25,  1886,  died  July  26,  1893. 

Mrs.  Pierson  died  suddenly,  on  Saturday,  February  17,  1894. 

After  a  long  and  brave  fight  with  an  insidious  disease,  Dr. 
Pierson  died  on  Thursday,  August  15,  191 1,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
six  years.  The  funeral  services  were  held  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  The  edifice  was  filled. 
In  addition  to  the  immediate  family  and  friends,  representatives 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
of  the  Morris  County  Medical  Society,  Trustees  of  the  Library 
and  Lyceum,  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association,  and  official  boards  of  other  organizations,  were 
present.  Interment  was  in  the  family  plot  in  the  First  Church 
cemetery. 

In  response  to  an  inquiry  from  the  Secretary,  Charles  H.  Ray- 
mond, 2d,  of  the  Class  of  1909  Yale  College,  wrote : 

"I  feel  complimented  and  touched  that  you  should  ask  me  about  Dr. 
Pierson.  He  brought  me  into  this  world  twenty-six  years  ago,  and  all 
through  my  childhood  watched  over  me,  conducting  me  through  the 
ordinary  diseases  and  saving  my  life  in  a  case  of  diphtheria.  A  man 
with  a  world  of  sorrow  on  his  own  shoulders  (you  know  he  had  lost  in 
a  period  of  eight  months  his  only  son  and  his  wife),  he  was  always 
gentle  and  cheerful  and  a  man  of  infinite  humor.  He  was  loved,  no 
man  more,  and  every  one  that  came  into  contact  with  him  felt  his  kindly 
influence.  Reticent  about  himself,  no  one  will  ever  know  how  much 
good  he  did  or  what  his  own  sacrifices  were  in  order  that  he  might  help 
others. 

"In  his  profession  he  was  admired.  The  doctors  here  all  looked  up  tc 
him  as  a  sort  of  father  confessor.  Most  of  them  had  been  his  assistants 
as  they  started  into  practice. 

"Not  only  myself,  but  all  who  knew  Dr.  Pierson,  have  lost  a  man  that 
was  a  loyal  friend  and  counselor,  one  that  was  the  incarnation  of  all 
goodness  and  unselfishness.  The  fellows  of  my  age  used  to  drop  in  to 
see  him  on  all  occasions,  knowing  that  they  would  have  a  warm  wel- 
come, and  it  was  worth  a  day's  journey  to  see  him  smile.  His  whole 
kindly  face  lit  up  as  he  rose  to  welcome  us. 


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"I  wish  I  could  add  more,  and  express  the  loss  of  all  Morristown,  and 
in  some  way  convey  to  you  the  love  we  all  felt  for  him;  but  you  knew 
him,  and  I  need  say  no  more." 

The  following  tribute  to  Dr.  Pierson  is  from  the  editorial 
columns  of  the  Morristown  Jerseyman  of  August  18,  191 1: 

"Than  Dr.  Pierson,  no  man  of  the  present  generation  had  entered  more 
generally  into  the  life  of  the  town  in  all  its  aspects.  He  was  a  leader 
in  the  medical  profession,  a  clear-headed  business  man  in  public  and 
private  matters,  the  life  of  social  gatherings,  and  above  all,  with  his 
broad,  sympathetic  nature  deepened  by  personal  affliction,  he  was  a  min- 
istering angel  in  many  afflicted  homes.  Truly  he  has  left  behind  him  a 
reputation  that  all  may  envy,  and  an  example  of  unselfish  devotion  to 
his  fellow  men  that  all  should  strive  to  emulate. 

A  good  soldier. 
A  beloved  physician." 


Edward  Kirk  Rawson 

Son  of  Rev.  Thomas  R.  Rawson  (Amherst  College  1830)  and  of 
Louisa  W.  (Dawes)  Rawson.  He  is  descended  from  Edward  Rawson, 
who  came  to  this  country  in  1632,  landing  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  was 
for  thirty-eight  years  Secretary  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  a  nephew 
of  the  first  pastor  of  the  First  Church  and  one  of  the  original  members 
of  the  Old  South  Church,  Boston.  His  mother,  Louisa  W.  Dawes,  was 
sister  of  Hon.  Henry  L.  Dawes  (Yale  College  1839),  member  of  the 
United  States  Senate  from  Massachusetts,  whose  ancestor  is  supposed 
to  have  been  the  William  Dawes  who  rode  with  Paul  Revere. 


Edward  K.  Rawson  was  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  February  21, 
1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Albany  Academy.  For 
nearly  two  years,  1863-65,  he  was  a  Clerk  in  the  Provost  Mar- 
shal's office,  Tenth  Massachusetts  District,  at  Springfield.  He 
entered  the  class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year.  In  col- 
lege he  gave  special  attention  to  English,  and  was  one  of  the  six 
Townsend  speakers  for  the  DeForest  Gold  Medal.  He  was  also 
interested  in  athletics  and  gymnastics,  rowed  on  the  Varuna  gig 
crew,  and  was  captain  of  one  of  the  classes  in  the  Gymnasium. 

After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  in  New  Haven,  and  then 
became  a  student  at  the  Yale  Theological  School.  In  1870  he 
entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1872.     In  January,  187 1,  he  was  appointed  and  com- 


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missioned  Chaplain  in  the  United  States  Navy,  by  Congress. 
After  traveling  in  Europe  on  leave  of  absence  in  1873  and  1874, 
part  of  the  time  with  Rice,  he  was  ordered  on  board  the  United 
States  steamer  Richmond,  cruising  in  the  North  and  South  /Pacific, 
where  he  remained  about  two  years  and  a  half.  He  was  subse- 
quently on  duty  on  board  the  training  ship  Monongahela  one  year, 
and  on  the  United  States  training  ship  Minnesota  for  three  years, 
and  at  the  Boston  Navy  Yard  for  three  years.     Following  his 


duty  at  the  Boston  Xavy  Yard,  he  took  charge  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  at  New  London  for  Rev.  Edward  Bacon,  who 
was  ill  in  California.  He  was  then  ordered,  in  1886,  to  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy,  as  Chaplain,  where  he  remained 
four  years. 

In  October,  1888,  he  was  made  Head  of  the  Department  of 
English  Studies,  History  and  Law,  at  the  United  States  Naval 
Academy  in  addition  to  his  duties  as  Chaplain.  During  his  term 
of  duty  at  the  Naval  Academy  he  was  Chaplain  of  the  United 
States  ship  Constellation  on  the  practice  cruises.  In  October, 
1890,  he  was  examined  for  a  professorship  in  the  Navy,  and  was 
commissioned,  by  the  United  States  Senate,  Professor  of  Ethics 


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and  English  Studies  at  the  Naval  Academy.  He  was  then 
ordered  to  the  Library  of  the  Navy  Department,  where  he 
remained  twelve  years;  five  years  of  this  time  he  was  Superin- 
tendent of  Naval  War  Records  and  in  charge  of  the  Library.  In 
1902  he  was  ordered  to  the  Naval  Academy  as  Head  of  the 
Department  of  English,  History  and  Law,  where  he  remained  till 
1907.  Having  been  detached  in  September  of  that  year,  he  was 
ordered  to  duty  in  connection  with  the  Naval  War  Records,  and 
was  engaged  in  publishing  Records  of  the  Union  and  Confed- 
erate Navies  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  when  his  active  career 
in  the  service  was  ended  on  account  of  age  and  he  was  put  upon 
the  Retired  List.  In  August,  1908,  he  went  abroad  with  his  two 
daughters,  and  traveled  in  England,  Wales,  and  on  the  Continent 
for  two  years.  Since  his  return,  he  has  been  living  in  Washington, 
writing  and  endeavoring  to  make  himself  generally  useful. 
He  has  published : 

"Twenty  Famous  Naval  Battles :  Salamis  to  Santiago."  2  vol.  New 
York.    T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  1899. 

Also  magazine  articles,  among  which  are : 

"Anarchic  Socialism,"    New  Englander,  January,    1884. 
"The   Rationale   of   Russian   Socialism,"    And  over  Review,   September, 
1884. 
"The  Naval  Chaplaincy,"   And  over  Review,  September,  1892. 
"Admiral  Farragut,"    Atlantic  Monthly,  1893. 

April  10,  1888,  he  was  married,  at  Philadelphia,  to  Eleanor 
Wade,  daughter  of  Robert  Wade,  the  American  representative 
of  the  old  firm  of  Wade  &  Butcher  of  Sheffield,  England.  He 
has  two  children:  Eleanor  Wade,  born  July  3,  1889;  Kath- 
arine Dawes,  born  August  24,  1894. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Wade  Rawson  died  August  24,  1894. 


Richard  Austin  Rice 

Son  of  Richard  Elisha  Rice  (Yale  College  1839)  and  Parnella  (Scran- 
ton)   Rice,  daughter  of  Hubbard  Scranton  of  Madison,  Conn. 

Richard  A.  Rice  was  born  in  Madison,  October  22,  1846,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 

He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Lit,  both  in  verse  and  in 


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prose ;    was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition ;    and  was 
bow  oar  on  the  class  gig  crew  in  Senior  year. 

The  first  year  after  graduation  he  spent  mostly  in  New  Haven. 
In  the  fall  of  1869  he  entered  the  Yale  Theological  School,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1870  went  to  Europe  and  continued  his  studies  in 
history  and  philology  at  the  University  of  Berlin.  In  December, 
1 871,  he  returned  and  resumed  his  place  in  his  class  at  the  Yale 
Theological  School,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1872.     In  May, 


1873,  he  went  to  Germany  again,  and  remained  abroad  for  two 
years,  devoting  his  time  to  the  study  of  European  languages  and 
art. 

He  was  appointed  Professor  of  Modern  Languages  and  Liten 
ture  in  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1875,  and  taught  in  that 
institution  till  the  summer  of  1881,  when  he  accepted  the  same 
professorship  in  Williams  College.  In  1890  he  was  made  Pre 
f essor  of  History,  and  in  the  same  year  he  became  Director  of  th< 
Williams  Art  Association.  The  department  of  the  History  oi 
Art  at  Williams  grew  out  of  a  voluntary  Art  Association  estab- 
lished many  years  before  by  the  students,  supported  by  them  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  23  I 

sonic  of  the  alumni.  Professor  Rice  had  given  a  course  of  lec- 
tures hefore  this  Association  for  several  years.  In  [897  the 
President  and  Dean  suggested  that  this  course  of  lectures  should 
be  expanded  and  made  a  part  of  the  curriculum.  This  proving 
acceptable  after  two  years'  trial,  they  proposed  the  addition  of  a 
half-year  course,  and  in  1904  the  department  was  created  and  he 
was  made  Professor  of  the  History  of  Art  and  Civilization.  He 
was  for  many  years  on  the  Advisory  Committee  of  the  Faculty 
and  served  as  Dean  of  the  College  in  1894-95. 

Rice  retired  from  active  service  at  Williams  College  in  July, 
mi  i.  and  was  given  a  retiring  allowance  by  the  Trustees  of  the 
Carnegie  foundation.  He  went  abroad  in  July  and  worked  for 
several  months  in  the  libraries  of  Heidelberg,  Paris,  and  London. 
He  returned  at  the  close  of  the  year  191 1,  and  was  for  a  year  in 
charge,  provisionally,  of  the  Prints  Division  of  the  Library  of 
Congress. 

After  acquainting  himself  to  some  extent  with  the  immediate 
needs  of  the  Library  in  this  Division,  he  went  again  to  Europe 
in  January,  1913,  in  search  of  material  which  could  not  easily  be 
acquired  through  the  ordinary  channels  of  library  agencies; 
such  as  rare  books,  works  which  demanded  careful  collation 
before  purchase,  old  views  and  plans  of  towns,  early  printed 
books,  manuscripts,  engravings  and  portrait  medals.  He  spent 
the  rest  of  the  winter  and  the  spring  in  Italy,  the  summer  in 
Germany  and  Switzerland,  the  autumn  in  Paris  and  London, 
returning  to  the  Library  in  January,  1914,  where  he  is  now 
arranging  that  part  of  the  above-mentioned  material  which  falls 
directly  under  his  supervision. 

November  28,  1876,  he  was  married  to  Marion  Ashley  Foster, 
at  Geneva,  N.  Y.     He  has  three  children: 

Richard  Ashley,  born  in  Burlington,  Vt,  January  29,  1878, 
graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  Williams  in  1899,  took  gradu- 
ate work  at  Harvard  (with  instructor's  duties)  and  at  Paris. 
He  is  now  Assistant  Professor  of  English  in  the  University  of 
Indiana,  at  Bloomington.  He  is  author  of  several  publications, 
the  latest  being  a  study  of  "Wordsworth's  Mind." 

Maxwell  Ware,  born  at  Williamstown,  Mass.,  August  1,  1882, 
graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  Williams  in  1903,  and  as 
Bachelor  of  Divinity  from  the  Episcopal  Theological  Seminary 
at  Cambridge  in   1906.     He  wras  a  missionary   1908-  19T 2  under 


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Bishop  Spalding-  at  Garfield,  Utah,  where  his  work  was  mainly 
among  the  mining  communities  of  that  district.  He  is  now  in 
charge  of  the  Emery  Memorial  House,  University  of  Utah,  at 
Salt  Lake  City.  / 

Roger  Leavitt,  born  at  Williamstown,  July  31,  1883,  was  a 
student  at  Williams  till  the  end  of  Sophomore  year,  when  he 
entered  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  An  excellent 
business  opportunity  influenced  him  to  leave  college  six  months 
before  graduation.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Messmer  & 
Rice,  engineers  and  contractors,  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  June  13, 
1912,  he  was  married  in  Los  Angeles  to  Lela  Morrison  of  that 
city,  and  has  one  child,  a  daughter,  born  December  7,  1913. 


Thomas  Hamlen  Robbins 


Son  of  Allen  A.  and  Anna  (Goodrich)  Robbins,  was  born  in 
Rocky  Hill,  Conn.,  November  4,  1841.  Soon  after  the  close  of 
the  spring  term  of  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y., 
where  he  was  studying  in  preparation  for  college,  he  enlisted  in 
the  Twenty-fifth  Connecticut  Volunteers  and  served  as  Corporal 
in   the   army   in    Louisiana.     He   was   with   the    regiment    when 


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engaged  in  the  operations  against  Port  Hudson,  and  in  the  action 
at  Irish  Bend,  April  14,  1863. 

He  was  mustered  out  August  26,  1863,  completed  his  prepara- 
tion at  Claverack,  and  entered  Yale  in  September,  1864.  He  had 
Phi  Heta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship  on  both  Junior  and  Senior 
appointment  lists. 

After  graduating  at  Yale,  he  taught  in  the  Amenia  Seminary 
at  Amenia,  X.  Y.,  till  1872,  when  he  went  West  and  was  engaged 
for  something  more  than  a  year  in  civil  engineering.  The  busi- 
ness outlook  at  this  time  was  unfavorable  to  railroad  construc- 
tion, and  to  new  enterprises  generally,  and  he  returned  East  in 
October,  1873,  and  resumed  temporarily  his  old  position  in  the 
seminary  at  Amenia. 

When  business  revived,  he  went  back  to  his  chosen  profession 
of  civil  engineering,  which  he  has  since  followed  for  nearly  thirty- 
live  vears,  and  from  the  nature  of  his  business  has  been  without 
a  permanent  home.  The  years  191 1  and  1912  he  spent  mostly  in 
Des  Moines,  Iowa.  He  is  at  present  located  at  Colorado  Springs, 
and  is  still  in  active  practice  as  an  engineer. 

May  5,  1895,  he  was  married  to  Mrs.  C.  A.  Zimmerman.  Mrs. 
Bobbins  died  August  15,  1909. 

*  Julius  William  Russell 

Son  of  William  P.  and  Lydia  (Miner)  Russell,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 1,  1846,  in  Moria,  N.  Y.,  and  came  to  college  from  Bur- 
lington, Yt.  He  was  prepared  privately  by  Mr.  H.  F.  Fisk, 
Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  passed  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years  at 
Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Conn.,  and  joined  the  Class 
of  '68  at  Yale  at  the  beginning  of  Junior  year,  graduating  with 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship. 

The  year  following  graduation,  he  was  Principal  of  the  academy 
at  Hinesburgh,  Vt.  In  December,  1869,  he  began  the  study  of 
law  in  the  office  of  Judge  William  C.  Shaw  in  Burlington,  and 
in  1870  entered  the  Columbia  College  Law  School.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  Chittenden  (Vt.)  County  Bar  in  September,  1871, 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  Washburn,  which  was  continued 
till  1874,  when  W'ashburn  withdrew.  He  became  prominent  in 
his  profession.  From  1882  to  1884  he  was  State's  Attorney  for 
Chittenden  County,  and  from  1889  to  1891  he  was  City  Attorney 


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for  the  City  of  Burlington.  On  April  2,  1894,  he  was  appointed 
Judge  of  the  City  Court,  being  the  unanimous  choice  of  the 
County  irrespective  of  party.  During  his  six  years  in  this  office 
many  important  cases  came  before  him  and  his  decision^  gave 
unusual  satisfaction. 

December  31,  1872,  he  was  married  to  Kate  Beecher,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Elmer  Beecher  of  Hinesburgh,  Vt.  She  is  descended 
from  families  prominent  in  the  American  Revolution,  in  one  of 


which  was  Roger  Sherman,  who  signed  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. The  first  American  ancestor  of  the  Beecher  family 
came  from  England  about  1630  and  settled  in  Connecticut.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Russell  had  three  children:  Flora  Emeline,  born  July 
12,  1875;  William  Julius,  born  December  25,  1876;  Elmer 
Beecher,  born  January  15,  1885;   all  at  Burlington. 

Flora  was  married  May  8,  1907,  to  Mahlon  P.  Lamoureux  of 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  has  two  children:  Russell,  born  July 
4,  [911;    Mahlon,  born  April  6,  191 3. 

William  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Arts  from  the  University 
of  Vermont  in   [898,  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Gregory, 


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Jennison  &  Company,  grain  commission  merchants,  of  Minne- 
apolis. He  was  married  January  16,  1912,  to  Hazel  Alness  of 
St.  Paul,  and  has  one  child,  Dudley,  born  April  6,  1913. 

Elmer  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Philosophy  from  the 
University  of  Vermont  in  1906,  studied  law  at  Harvard,  and 
received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Columbia  in  191 1. 

Judge  Julius  W.  Russell  died  of  typhoid  fever  at  his  home  in 
Burlington,  February  25,  1900,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three  years. 
Mrs.  Russell  lives  in  the  old  home  at  Burlington. 


Francis  Eugene  Seagrave 

Son  of  John  and  Almena  (Ross)  Seagrave.  He  is  descended  in  the 
fifth  generation  from  Captain  Edward  Seagrave,  who  commanded  a  com- 
pany of  infantry  from  Uxbridge,  Mass.,  in  the  War  Of  the  Revolution, 
and  from  his  son,  John  Seagrave,  who  enlisted  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years 
in  the  same  company,  at  first  as  a  fifer  and  later  as  a  regular  soldier, 
and  served  to  the  end  of  the  war.  On  his  mother's  side,  his  grandfather, 
Ziba  Ross,  served  in  the  American  army  during  the  War  of  1812. 

Francis  E.  Seagrave  was  born  November  5,  1843,  at  Belling- 
ham,  Mass.     In   1845  his  parents  returned  to  the  home  of  the 


236  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Seagrave  family  in  Uxbridge,  where  they  were  living  when  he 
entered  Yale.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  and  graduated  from  Yale  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank 
in  scholarship,  and  was  one  of  the  Presidents  of  Linonia. 

After  graduation  he  was  Principal  of  the  High  School  at 
Toledo,  Ohio,  till  July,  1871,  when  he  resigned  his  position  and 
engaged  in  banking,  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Raymer 
&  Seagrave.  This  firm  became  Raymer,  Seagrave  &  Company  in 
1873,  when  his  brother,  Orville  B.  Seagrave  of  Uxbridge,  was 
admitted  as  a  member.  They  were  very  successful  financially  for 
a  number  of  years,  but  in  1883  became  somewhat  involved  in  some 
large  operations,  and  in  December,  1884,  the  firm  was  dissolved. 

About  January  1,  1885,  the  new  firm  of  Seagrave  Brothers  was 
formed  and  offices  were  opened  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  at  Boston 
and  Uxbridge,  Mass.  Business  started  with  very  flattering  pros- 
pects, but  the  sudden  death  of  O.  B.  Seagrave  in  February,  1886, 
was  a  serious  blow.  F.  B.  Seagrave  conducted  the  business  under 
the  name  of  Seagrave  Brothers  after  that  date. 

Seagrave  was  among  the  first  to  become  interested  in  electric 
railways,  and  has  constructed  several  important  lines.  In  1901 
he  was  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Toledo  &  Western  Rail- 
way Company,  and  in  1903-06  was  President  of  the  Toledo  & 
Chicago  Interurban  Railway  Company.  In  1906-07  he  built  the 
Indianapolis  &  New  Castle  Railway.  He  has  not  been  actively 
engaged  in  railroad  construction  since  November,  1907,  but  has 
been  interested  in  mining  operations  in  Colorado. 

He  was  married  to  Charlotte  C.  Lee,  July  1,  1869,  at  Toledo, 
Ohio,  and  has  had  five  children,  all  born  at  Toledo :  Mary 
Almena,  December  7,  1871 ;  Jessie  Lee,  May  14,  1874;  Harry 
Wentworth,  February  25,  1878,  died  April  21,  1884;  Walter 
Howard,  September  12,  1881 ;    Lillian  Miner,  October  26,  1885. 

Mary  Almena  was  married  to  Rodell  D.  Murray  at  Toledo, 
January  2^,  1906.  They  have  two  daughters,  born  at  Toledo: 
Evelyn  Huntington  Murray,  February  6,  1910;  Charlotte  Dexter 
Murray,  February  22,  19 14. 

Jessie  Lee  is  a  teacher  in  the  Public  Schools  of  Toledo. 

Walter  Howard  was  married  to  Alice  Duty  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
June  6,  191 1.  He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  from  Yale  in 
1904,  and  of  LL.B.  from  Western  Reserve  in  1907,  and  is  now 
practicing  law  in  Cleveland. 


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Lillian  Miner  was  married  to  Ralph  M.  Chapman  at  Toledo, 
July  21,  1909.  They  have  two  children:  Ralph  Seagrave  Chap- 
man, born  December  31,  191 1;  Walter  Howard  Chapman,  born 
December  7,  191 2. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  L.  Seagrave  died  at  her  home  in  Toledo  Decem- 
ber 6,  1912. 


Charles  Edwin  Searls 

Son  of  Edwin  C.  and  Caroline  (Mathewson)  Searls.  His  father's 
ancestors  were  English,  his  mother's  Scotch.  The  Searls  family  came 
from  Dorchester,  England,  to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  early  in  the  history 
of  the  Colonies,  and  one  branch  drifted  across  the  line  into  Windham 
County,  Conn.  The  family  motto  is,  "Swift  as  the  greyhound  and  gentle 
as  the  dove." 

Charles  E.  Searls  was  born  March  25,  1846,  in  Pomfret,  Conn. 
He  lived  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  from  the  time  he  was  three  years 
old  till  the  death  of  his  father  in  1857,  when  he  removed  with 
his  mother  to  Thompson  and  was  prepared  for  college  there  by 
Henry  S.  Parker. 

After  graduation  he  returned  to  Thompson,  where  he  has  since 
resided.     He  studied  law  with  Hon.  G.  W.  Phillips  of  Putnam, 


238  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  August,  1870,  and  has  since  prac- 
ticed his  profession  at  Putnam.  He  was  Town  Clerk  of  Thomp- 
son in  1869  and  1870,  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Legislature 
in  1 87 1,  Secretary  of  State  in  1881-82,  and  received  a  compli- 
mentary vote  for  Member  of  Congress,  from  his  County,  in  the 
Convention  of  1884.  In  1886  he  was  again  member  of  the 
Connecticut  House  of  Representatives,  and  was  candidate  for 
Speaker,  but  was  defeated.  In  1886  his  name  was  prominently 
mentioned  among  the  candidates  for  Lieutenant  Governor.  In 
1896  he  was  delegate  from  Connecticut  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention  at  St.  Louis.  He  was  Special  Counsel  to 
the  Comptroller  of  the  Currency  in  1898  and  1899 ;  was  appointed, 
by  the  Judges,  State's  Attorney  for  Windham  County  in  1903, 
and  has  held  that  office  continuously  since ;  and  was  Connecticut 
State  Senator  from  the  28th  Senatorial  District  in  1909  and  1910, 
serving  as  Chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee  and  also  as 
Chairman  of  the  Joint  Committee  on  Rules  and  of  the  Senate 
Committee  on  Rules. 

Searls  is  a  prominent  man  in  Connecticut,  and  is  respected  and 
trusted  by  both  political  parties  alike  for  his  integrity  and  fair- 
ness. He  has,  however,  kept  out  of  politics  and  devoted  him- 
self almost  exclusively  to  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association  and  of  the 
State  Bar  Association,  and  has  held  offices  in  both.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  National  Economic  League,  and  a  Director  of 
the  Connecticut  branch  of  the  National  Citizens'  League. 

In  a  recent  letter  to  the  Secretary  he  writes : 

"I  am  getting  to  be  something  of  a  globe  trotter,  spending  the  sum- 
mers in  Europe  and  a  month  or  so  every  winter  in  some  warm  climate. 
I  find  that  the  old  saying,  'All  work  and  no  play  makes  Jack  a  dull  boy,' 
applies  to  me,  and  so  I  am  taking  a  fair  proportion  of  play  with  my 
work." 

He  was  married,  October  8,  1902,  at  Trinity  Church,  Boston, 
to  Sarah  Alice  Fell  of  that  city. 

*William  Roumage  Shelton 

Son  of  William  J.  and  Mary  (Hough)  Shelton.  The  family  came  from 
Stratford  and  Huntington.  His  ancestors  were  of  Revolutionary  stock, 
and  his  father,  grandfather,  and  great-grandfather  were  all  physicians. 
His  grandfather  and  great-grandfather  were  both  graduates  of  Yale. 


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William  R.  Shelton  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  September 
11,  1845.  He  was  prepared  for  college  by  Hubbard  Arnold  of 
New  Haven,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '68  at  the  beginning  of 
Sophomore  year. 

In  1866  he  received  from  President  Andrew  Johnson  an 
appointment  to  the  West  Point  Military  Academy  from  Connect- 
icut, which  appointment  he  was  allowed  to  turn  over  to  his 
younger  brother,  Edwin  H.  Shelton,  while  he  continued  his  under- 


graduate studies  at  Yale.  This  brother  was  graduated  from 
West  Point  in  1870,  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
First  Regiment  United  States  Cavalry,  and  was  sent  to  the  west- 
ern frontier,  where  he  participated  in  many  encounters  with  the 
Indians.     He  died  in  the  service  January  13,  1880. 

After  graduation  from  Yale,  Shelton  returned  to  Bridgeport, 
where  he  studied  law  with  Henry  S.  San  ford.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  Bar  in  June,  1872,  and  at  once  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  his  native  city.  He  was  Assistant  City  Attorney 
of  Bridgeport  in  1874  and  1875,  and  Deputy  Judge  of  the  City 
Court  of  Bridgeport  from  1875  to  1877. 


240  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

July  4,  1884,  he  was  appointed  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  Superior 
Court,  and  October  14  of  the  same  year  he  was  made  Clerk  of 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Fairfield  County.  April  21, 
1891,  he  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court,  and -Clerk 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors,  which  offices  he  held  till  fail- 
ing health  forced  him  to  resign  them  in  1908.  Shelton's  posi- 
tion as  Clerk  of  the  Fairfield  County  Superior  and  Supreme 
Courts  for  nearly  two  decades  brought  him  into  touch  with  the 
entire  legal  fraternity  of  Connecticut,  and  made  him  known  to 
members  of  the  Bar  in  many  other  states  of  the  Union.  Among 
the  legal  profession,  his  administration  of  the  office  of  Clerk  was 
everywhere  noted  for  its  proficiency,  the  clearness  and  legibility 
of  his  records,  their  unvarying  freedom  from  errors,  even  of  the 
most  minute  degree.  The  records  of  his  office  during  his  admin- 
istration are  said  to  be  models  of  their  kind,  and  it  was  said 
by  prominent  lawyers  of  other  states  that  his  court  records 
were  the  best  in  any  court  in  New  England. 

After  a  long  illness,  he  died  of  heart  failure,  January  13,  191 1, 
at  the  home  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  William  H.  Stevenson,  in  Bridge- 
port. He  was  sixty-five  years  of  age.  Funeral  services  were 
held  on  January  16,  which  were  largely  attended  by  the  business 
and  professional  men  of  the  city.  The  interment  was  in  Moun- 
tain Grove  Cemetery. 

The  following  loving  tribute  was  paid  to  his  memory  by  the 
Bar  of  Fairfield  County: 

"The  Bar  of  Fairfield  County  desires  to  affectionately  place  upon  its 
records  this  tribute  to  the  memory  of  our  deceased  brother,  the  late 
William  R.  Shelton,  whose  personality  had  become  endeared  to  us  by 
many  years  of  professional,  official  and  social  intimacy,  and  whose 
lamented  death  occurred  on  the  13th  of  January,  191 1. 

"Born  in  Bridgeport,  September  11,  1845,  a  graduate  from  the  Academ- 
ical Department  of  Yale  College  in  the  Class  of  1868,  for  four  years  there- 
after a  diligent  student  of  the  law,  under  the  late  Henry  S.  San  ford, 
when  he  began  the  practice  in  June,  1872,  his  admirable  equipment,  his 
naturally  discriminating  and  well-balanced  mind,  his  high  integrity,  and 
large  and  influential  acquaintance  opened  to  him  the  prospect  of  an 
honorable  and  lucrative  career  at  the  Bar;  and  for  a  while  he  pursued 
that  course,  with  no  effort  at  spectacular  display,  but  in  a  manner  that 
impressed  all  who  had  knowledge  of  his  work  with  a  distinct  idea  of  his 
unusual  legal  ability. 

"He  was  not,  however,  destined  to  continue  long  in  that  particular  line 
of  activity,  but  was  soon  called  to  other  fields  of  usefulness.     As  Assist- 


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ant  Attorney  of  the  City  of  Bridgeport  and  Judge  of  the  City  Court, 
he  exhibited  the  qualities  demanded  by  those  responsible  positions  and 
acquitted  himself  in  the  discharge  of  their  important  duties  with  invariable 
distinction. 

"In  October.  1884,  he  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  for  Fairfield  County  by  the  Honorable  Frederic  B.  Hall,  then 
Judge  of  that  Court  and  now  Chief  Justice  of  the  State.  The  same  year 
he  was  selected  by  the  Judges  of  the  Superior  Court  as  Assistant  Clerk 
of  that  Court  in  this  County,  and,  having  held  that  position  until  April 
12,  1891,  he  was  promoted  to  the  higher  office  of  Clerk,  and  served  in 
the  latter  capacity  until  July  1,  1908,  when,  by  failing  health,  to  the  great 
regret  of  the  Court  and  Bar,  he  was  compelled  to  retire.  It  was  dur- 
ing this  long  period  of  his  official  labors  so  intimately  related  to  the 
daily  life  and  pursuits  of  the  entire  profession  that  we  came  to  know 
him  best,  and  to  appreciate  his  rare  fitness  for  the  place,  and  the  unfail- 
ing fidelity,  accuracy,  patience  and  kindliness  that  characterized  his 
intercourse  with  us.  in  that  exacting  and  laborious  round. 

"No  one  not  familiar  with  the  details  of  judicial  archives  and  procedure 
can  comprehend,  and  even  practicing  lawyers  are  apt  to  forget,  and  it 
is  well  that  we  should,  in  this  memorial  to  our  deceased  brother,  recall, 
consider,  and  realize  how  much  is  due  to  the  faithful  clerk ;  what  knowl- 
edge of  law  he  must  possess,  what  memory  he  must  exercise,  what 
familiarity  with  rules  and  forms  and  precedents  he  must  have,  what  con- 
stancy and  punctuality  he  must  at  all  times  display,  what  readiness  to 
meet  extraordinary  emergencies,  to  solve  unusual  complications,  to  grant 
every  request,  and  to  bear  every  burden,  is  demanded  of  him ;  and  with 
what  courtesy  and  inexhaustible  good  nature  he  is  expected  to  comply 
with  these  most  onerous  requirements. 

"It  can  truly  be  said,  and  it  is  enough  to  say,  that  William  R.  Shelton 
fully  exemplified  this  noble  ideal. 

"The  documents  and  volumes  where  his  diligent  and  careful  hand  traced 
the  history  of  litigation  are  a  monument  to  his  efficient  public  service. 

"His  sterling  and  amiable  character  has  a  lasting  place  in  our  loving 
remembrance. 

Robert  E.  DeForest, 
Morris  W.  Seymour, 
Morris  B.  Beardsley, 

Committee. 

"Upon  motion  to  the  Superior  Court,  in  session  at  Bridgeport,  on  Fri- 
day, February  17,  191 1,  Hon.  Milton  A.  Shumway,  Judge,  presiding,  it 
was  ordered  that  the  foregoing  Memorial  be  spread  upon  the  Records 
of  the  Superior  Court. 

William  T.  Haviland,  Clerk." 


William  Merrick  Slay 


Son   of   William   and   Louisa    (Onins)    Slay,   of    Queen   Anne   County, 
Md.,   and   brother   of   John   O.    Slay    (Yale   College    1859).     His    father 
16 


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THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


returned  in  1847  to  Kent  County,  Delaware,  which  had  been  the  home  of 
the  Slay  family  for  more  than  a  hundred  years. 

William  M.  Slay  was  born  August  5,  1846,  in  Queen  Anne 
County,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  William  A.  Reynolds  of 
Dover,  Del.,  a  native  of  Rhode  Island  and  a  graduate  of  Wesleyan 
College,  Middletown,  Conn.  He  joined  the  Class  of  '68  at  the 
beginning  of  Sophomore  year. 


After  graduation  he  taught  one  year  at  Chestertown,  Aid.,  and 
studied  law  two  years  in  the  same  place,  with  his  brother,  in  the 
office  of  Vickers  &  Slay.  In  October,  187 1,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  liar,  and  has  since  been  established  as  an  attorney-at-law  in 
Chestertown.  He  soon  acquired  a  good,  active,  and  constant 
practice.  As  side  issues,  he  has  indulged  in  farming  and  politics. 
He  writes  that  he  considers  himself  a  very  fair  farmer,  but  a 
very  poor  politician ;  but  whatever  he  may  think  of  his  own 
work,  he  certainly  as  a  public  official  has  rendered  the  kind  of 
service  that  the  country  needs. 

In  1883  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  State's  Attorney  for 
Kent  County,  Aid.,  for  a  term  of  four  years.     After  a  very  hot 


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fight  he  was  defeated  in  a  very  close  contest;  but  at  the  next 
election,  in  1891,  received  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Nominating  Convention  on  the  first  ballot,  and  was  elected 
without  opposition,  the  Republican  party  making  no  nomination 
against  him,  though  that  party  frequently  elects  a  portion,  and, 
on  two  occasions,  has  elected  all  of  its  ticket  in  that  county.  He 
held  the  office  eight  years,  being  elected  again  without  opposition 
in  1895.  He  was  eminently  successful  in  this  office  in  a  number 
of  important  cases,  civil  and  criminal. 

Slay  holds  the  record  in  the  United  States  for  the  conviction 
of  the  largest  number  of  murderers  in  one  case.  While  State's 
Attorney  in  1892,  he  prosecuted  nine  negroes  indicted  together 
for  the  murder  of  Dr.  Hill,  and  convicted  eight  of  them  of  mur- 
der in  the  first  degree.  After  the  trial,  being  satisfied  from  a 
long  and  close  study  of  the  case  that  at  least  four  of  the  prisoners, 
owing  to  their  extreme  youth,  ought  not  to  suffer  death,  in  defi- 
ance of  the  maddened  public  clamor  throughout  the  State  for  the 
blood  of  all  the  murderers,  almost  alone  he  faced  the  hostile  pub- 
lic press  and  people,  interceded  with  the  Governor  and  explained 
the  case  to  him,  and  secured  from  him  the  commutation  of  the 
death  sentences  of  the  four  youthful  convicts  to  imprisonment 
for  life. 

In  the  Democratic  State  Convention  of  1896,  Slay  was  nomi- 
nated for  Presidential  Elector,  but  the  national  ticket  was  defeated 
in  Maryland.  In  1898  he  suffered  a  severe  attack  of  typhoid 
fever,  which  left  him  a  physical  and  nervous  wreck,  and  all 
thought  of  further  activity  in  any  line  of  business  was  necessarily 
abandoned ;  but  after  several  years  of  comparative  helplessness, 
he  gradually  regained  a  little  strength  physically  and  mentally, 
and  by  following  strictly  the  advice  of  Dr.  William  Osier  to  keep 
himself  busy  with  light  work  and  diversion,  he  continued  to  mend, 
though  very  slowly,  and  in  1907  took  up  again  a  strenuous  busi- 
ness life  and  also  entered  somewhat  into  politics.  His  special 
business  was  that  of  straightening  out  an  exceedingly  large  and 
tangled  estate,  on  which  he  is  still  at  work. 

In  the  same  year  (1907)  he  was  elected  State  Senator.  The 
following  extract  from  a  private  letter  from  ex-Attorney  Gen- 
eral Isaac  Lobe  Straus  shows  what  was  thought  of  Slay's  work 
as  a  State  Senator: 


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"I  hope  you  will  not  think  I  am  bandying  compliments  when  I  say  that 
I  have  always  put  the  highest  value  upon  your  services  in  the  Senate. 
No  one  had  a  better  opportunity  than  I,  as  Attorney  General,  to  observe 
and  estimate  the  worth  of  your  work,  and  I  unhesitatingly  say  that  in 
devotion  to  the  public  interests  and  in  intelligent  and  vigorous  effort  to 
that  end,  unmoved  by  all  personal  or  private  considerations,  your  services 
were  not  surpassed  in  absolute  value  by  those  of  any  man  in  the  Senate 
during  the  Sessions  in  which  you  served." 

Slay  is  a  Director  and  the  Attorney  of  the  People's  Bank  of 
Chestertown,  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Visitors  and  Governors  of  Washington  College  at  Chester- 
town,  an  institution  at  whose  dedication  General  Washington  him- 
self was  present. 

December  3,  1885,  he  was  married,  at  Chestertown,  to  Augusta 
Eccleston  Hynson,  daughter  of  Richard  Hynson,  Esq. 


*Thomas  Chalmers  Sloane 

Fifth  son  of  William  and  Euphemia  (Douglas)  Sloane  and  brother 
of  Henry  T.  Sloane  of  the  Class  of  '66. 

Thomas  C.  Sloane  was  born  in  the  City  of  New  York,  October 
21,  1847,  was  prepared  for  college  by  James  N.  McElligott  of 
that  city  and  entered  Yale  with  the  Class  of  '68.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Spoon  Committee  and  delivered  the  Latin  Salu- 
tatory at  the  Wooden  Spoon  Exhibition. 

After  graduation  he  joined  his  father  and  brothers,  who,  under 
the  firm  name  of  W.  &  J.  Sloane,  were  engaged  in  the  carpet 
business  in  New  York  City.  He  brought  to  the  business  the 
enthusiasm  of  youth  restrained  by  rare  good  judgment,  and  a 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  men  and  affairs  quite  remarkable  in 
one  of  his  years.  So  eager  was  he  to  assume  and  discharge  his 
full  share  of  the  duties  and  responsibilities  incident  to  the  con- 
trol and  management  of  a  large  and  increasing  business,  that  he 
failed  to  realize  that  he  might  be  overtaxing  his  strength. 

Devotion  to  business  did  not  narrow  his  views  of  life.  He 
fondly  cherished  the  love  of  Alma  Mater,  and  was  ever  ready  to 
assist,  with  money  and  advice,  all  efforts  to  increase  the  useful- 
ness of  the  University.  In  1880,  after  the  death  of  his  father, 
he  suggested  to  his  brother,  Henry  T.  Sloane,  that  in  no  way 


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245 


could  they  more  worthily  show  their  love  and  veneration  for 
their  father's  memory  than  by  the  gift  to  the  University  of  a 
suitable  memorial.  The  suggestion  was  acted  upon,  and  the 
Sloane  Physical  Laboratory  (now  called  Sloane  Lecture  Hall), 
completed  in  1883,  the  gift  of  the  brothers,  was  the  result. 

Later,  in  response  to  the  call  of  those  who  deemed  a  new  gym- 
nasium necessary  in  order  to  supply  the  increasing-  demands  of 
the   students,    he   diligently   assisted   in    securing   the   necessary 


funds,  contributing  liberally  himself  for  the  purchase  of  the  land 
and  erection  of  the  Gymnasium,  which  was  completed  and  pre- 
sented to  the  L^niversity  in  1892.  In  June,  1889,  he  was  elected 
by  the  Alumni  a  member  of  the  Yale  Corporation.  His  rare 
personal  qualities,  his  business  experience  and  efficiency,  made  him 
a  very  useful  member  of  that  body. 

Concerning  his  personal  traits  little  need  be  said,  for  we  all 
knew  him  from  his  boyhood  up.  It  would  be  difficult  to  say  why 
we  loved  him ;  but  we  all  agree  that  he  was,  as  boy  and  man, 
worthy  of  the  love  we  bore  him.  His  character  won  respect ; 
his  kindly  manner  and  considerate  thought  of  others  made  friends 
of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 


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On  the  3d  day  of  June,  1873,  he  married  Priscilla  P.  Dixon, 
daughter  of  Courtlandt  P.  and  Hannah  Elizabeth  Dixon.  Dur- 
ing the  winter  of  1888  his  health,  which  had  not  been  rpbust, 
began  to  fail,  and  Bright's  disease  soon  developed.  About  the 
middle  of  June,  1890,  he  removed  to  Lenox,  Mass.,  where  he  had 
arranged  to  spend  the  summer.  He  died  there  very  suddenly,  on 
the  17th  day  of  June,  1890. 


*Charles  Edwin  Smith 

Son  of  Richard  Smith,  proprietor  of  the  Cincinnati  Gazette,  and  Mary 
(Quinn)   Smith. 

Charles  E.  Smith  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  September  29,  1847, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Chickering  Institute  in  that 
city. 

After  leaving  college,  he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  entered 
the  editorial  department  of  the  Cincinnati  Gazette,  expecting  to 
succeed  his  father  in  the  management  of  that  paper.  His  work 
here  was  creditable,  and  gave  promise  of  a  successful  career. 
About  1876  he  became  conscious  of  pulmonary  weakness,  which 
threatened   to   become   serious.     A   vacation  of   several   months 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES  247 

spent  in  Colorado  and  California  helped  him  so  much  that  he 
returned  to  Cincinnati,  confident  of  a  permanent  cure.  It  was 
not  thought  best  that  he  should  take  up  again  his  editorial  duties 
till  his  health  was  fully  established,  and  he  accepted  a  position 
temporarily  in  the  Internal  Revenue  Office.  He  was,  however, 
soon  compelled  to  relinquish  this  position  by  reason  of  failing 
strength.  From  this  time  he  declined  rapidly  till  his  death,  which 
occurred  at  his  residence  in  Clifton,  December  23,  1880. 

He  had  in  him  the  seed  and  promise  of  an  honorable  and  use- 
ful life.  He  was  upright  in  his  dealings,  fair  in  his  judgments, 
friendly  in  his  manner,  true  in  his  affections,  strong  in  his  con- 
viction^, careful  in  his  decisions.  His  was  a  well-rounded  char- 
acter. Boyish  in  his  appearance,  he  was  singularly  mature  in  his 
views  and  in  the  way  he  looked  on  life. 

He  was  married  February  20,  1873,  to  Sophia  B.  Whiteman, 
daughter  of  B.  B.  Whiteman,  Esq.,  of  Cincinnati.  Mrs.  Smith 
survived  her  husband  only  four  years,  dying  November  13,  1884, 
leaving  a  son,  Whiteman  Smith,  born  June  20,  1879. 

Mase  Shepard  Southworth 

Son  of  Hon.  Edward  Southworth  (Harvard  College  1826)  and  Ann 
Elizabeth  (Shepard)  Southworth.  Edward  Southworth  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Edward  Southworth,  the  Leyden  pilgrim,  who  returned 
from  Holland  to  England  in  1620  and  died  the  following  year.  In  1623 
his  wife,  Alice  Southworth,  came  with  her  two  young  children,  Constant 
and  Thomas,  to  Plymouth,  where  she  married  Governor  William  Brad- 
ford, then  a  widower,  and  the  two  Southworth  boys  were  brought  up  in 
the  Bradford  family.  Ann  Elizabeth  Shepard  was  daughter  of  Rev. 
Mase  Shepard  (Dartmouth  College  1785)  of  Little  Compton,  R.  I.,  and 
sister  of  Professor  Charles  U.  Shepard  of  Amherst  College.  Her  mother, 
Deborah  Hoskins,  was  a  sister  of  Ruth  Hoskins,  the  mother  of  Ralph 
Waldo  Emerson. 

Three  brothers  have  graduated  at  Yale:  George  C.  S.  Southworth 
of  the  Class  of  1863,  Professor  of  English  Literature  in  Kenyon  Col- 
lege; Dr.  Edward  Southworth  of  the  Class  of  1879;  and  Dr.  Thomas  S. 
Southworth  of  New  York  City,  of  the  Class  of  1883. 

Mase  S.  Southworth  was  born  in  West  Springfield,  Mass., 
September  2^,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover. 

He  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Junior  year, 
and  spent  several  years  in  the  study  of  chemistry  at  Gottingen 


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and  Tubingen,  Germany,  receiving*  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Tubin- 
gen, August  2,  1872.  In  1877  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A. 
from  Yale,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  '68.  In  1876  lip  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Chemistry  at  Williams  College,  but 
resigned  his  professorship  in  1881  and  went  abroad  for  further 
study.  After  his  return  he  continued  his  studies  in  chemistry, 
but  in  recent  years  he  has  been  forced  to  give  more  and  more 
attention  to  business  interests.     He  is  a  Director  of  the  Spring- 


field Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  Company,  and  Trustee  of  the 
Hampden  Savings  Bank  and  the  Union  Relief  Association. 

He  was  married,  November  25,  1879,  to  Mary  Virginia  Mal- 
lory  of  New  York  City. 


*Edward  Leavitt  Spencer 

Son  of  William  and  Mary  J.  (Dunham)  Spencer.  The  Spencers  were 
farmers  and  traders  who  had  emigrated  from  England  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Selden  Spencer  removed  about  t;o 
from  eastern  Massachusetts,  where  the  family  had  been  settled  for  sev- 
eral generations,  to  the  vicinity  of  Hartford,  Conn.  His  grandson, 
William  Spencer,  father  of  our  classmate,  was  born  in  Cheshire,  Conn., 


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in  1804,  and  died  in  New  Haven  in  1868.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
member  of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  nrm  of  McCurdy,  Aldrich  &  Spencer 
of  New  York.  Mary  Jane  Dunham  was  born  in  Berlin,  Conn.,  in  1822, 
and  died  in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  in  1894.  The  Dunham  family  had  lived 
in  the  vicinity  of  Berlin  for  a  number  of  generations,  and  had  been 
farmers  and   seafaring  people. 

Edward  L.  Spencer  was  born  May  20,  1847,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Episcopal  Academy,  Cheshire, 
Conn. 


After  graduation  he  traveled  in  Europe  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
and  then  attended  Columbia  College  Law  School,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  May,  1872.  After  another  tour 
of  Europe  he  settled  in  Xew  York  City  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  He  made  a  specialty  of  real  estate  law  in  Xew  York 
City  and  Brooklyn. 

May  1,  1883,  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Spencer  Aldrich 
(Columbia  College  1874),  a  son  of  his  father's  old  partner,  with 
whom  he  was  associated  in  the  management  of  the  Aldrich  estate. 
In  May,  1894,  he  severed  his  connection  with  this  estate  and 
devoted  himself  to  real  estate  law  in  Xew  York  City. 

He  died  at  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Hospital,  in  Xew  York 
City,  May  2,  1905,  in  the  fifty-eighth  year  of  his  age. 


250  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

In  a  private  letter  to  the  Secretary  a  few  years  before  his 
death,  he  wrote: 

"My  life  has  been  a  quiet  one.  My  engagements  confine  me  sojnewhat 
closely  to  the  office  during  business  hours,  and  when  these  are  over,  Eng- 
lish and  French  literature  have  become  my  pleasure  and  study.  I  have 
taken  no  active  part  in  politics,  but  hold  decided  views  therein.  I  have 
grown  up  in  my  political  life  with  the  Evening  Post,  and  am  glad  that 
that  journal  generally  agrees  with  me  in  matters  of  political  faith.  It 
is,  therefore,  unnecessary  for  me  to  explain  what  that  faith  is. 

"In  closing,  let  me  assure  you,  and  through  you  the  other  members  of 
the  Class  of  '68,  that  their  classmate,  now  a  gray-haired  and  middle- 
aged  man,  retains  in  his  heart  an  affection  for  them  and  for  Old  Yale, 
as  warm  as  in  the  days  when  we  were  boys  together.  The  memories  of 
those  days  are  very  pleasant  to  me." 

Spencer  was  married  in  New  York  City,  September  25,  1 871,  to 
Katharine  Angell  Weeden,  who  was  born  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
in  1850.  On  the  paternal  side  she  is  descended  from  the  Weeden 
family  which  had  settled  in  Rhode  Island  in  early  Colonial  times. 
Several  members  of  this  family  took  part  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  On  the  maternal  side  she  is  descended  from  the  King 
family  of  Rhode  Island,  who  were  also  early  settlers  there.  Sam- 
uel Ward  King,  her  grandfather,  was  Governor  of  Rhode  Island, 
during  the  so-called    "Dorr"    rebellion. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  had  three  children:  Mabel,  born  Sep- 
tember 1,  1873,  died  September  1,  1873;  Elliott  Linn,  born 
August  1,  1875;   Edith,  born  December  25,  1877. 

Elliott  was  graduated  in  1896  from  Cornell  University,  with 
the  degree  of  M.E.,  and  is  engaged  in  the  engineering  depart- 
ment of  the  gas  industry.  He  is  at  present  Chief  Engineer  of 
the  Central  Union  Gas  Company  of  New  York.  In  1905  he  was 
married  to  Anna  Dare  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Edith  was  married  in  1897  to  Newton  Ailing,  Vice-President 
of  the  National  Nassau  Bank  of  New  York.  They  have  one 
child,  Kathryn,  born  in  1899. 

Mrs.  Katharine  W.  Spencer  resides  at  490  St.  Nicholas  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 

*Calvin  Daniel  Stowell 

Son  of  John  C.  and  Marietta  (Lord)  Stowell,  was  born  in 
Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  January  25,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  Ithaca  Academy. 


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Immediately  after  graduation  he  returned  to  Ithaca  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  his  father  in  the  wholesale  grocery  trade, 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  C.  Stowell,  Son  &  Company,  and  was 
actively  engaged  in  that  business  till  his  death.  In  addition  to 
his  other  business  activities,  he  was  a  Director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Ithaca,  a  Trustee  of  the  City  Hospital  Associa- 
tion, a  Trustee  of  the  Ladies'  Union  Benevolent  Society,  and 
closely  identified  with  the  Inlet  Mission.     He  was  also  a  mem- 


ber and  Trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  During  the 
later  years  of  his  life  he  had  borne  the  greater  share  of  the  burden 
of  the  business,  gradually  relieving  his  venerable  father  of  its 
cares  and  responsibilities. 

A  few  years  before  his  death,  he  wrote  to  the  Secretary : 

"My  life  has  been  fairly  prosperous,  peaceful,  uneventful,  free  from 
bereavement  and  misfortune,  not  glorified  to  any  extent  by  honors  or 
titles,  and  yet  not  without  a  certain  amount  of  success  not  satisfying  to 
my  ambition,  but  perhaps  sufficient." 

He  was  married  at  Ithaca,  December  18,  1873,  to  Amelia  W. 
Esty  (Vassar  1871),  daughter  of  Senator  Edward  S.  Esty,  and 


252  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

had  three  children:    Mary  Esty,  born  June  16,  1877;    Edward 
Esty,  born  October  22,  1879;    Harley  Lord,  born  December  30, 

1883. 

Mary  Esty  Stowell  was  graduated  from  Vassar  in  1899,  and 
was  married  September  27,  1910,  to  Archibald  R.  Davidson.  A 
son,  Archibald  R.  Davidson,  Jr.,  was  born  August  17,  191 1. 

Edward  E.  Stowell  was  graduated  from  Hamilton  in  1901,  from 
Columbia  Law  School  in  1904,  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Greene,  Hurd  &  Stowell,  counsellors  at  law,  in  New  York  City. 
He  was  married  June  24,  191 1,  to  Alice  Fellowes,  and  has  a  son, 
Edward  Esty  Stowell,  Jr.,  born  May  29,  1912.  Mr.  Stowell 
resides  at  829  Park  Avenue. 

Harley  Lord  Stowell  was  graduated  from  Hamilton  in  1905, 
and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1908,  and  is  practicing  in 
New  York  City  with  the  firm  of  Rounds  &  Schurman. 

Stowell  died  of  angina  pectoris  at  his  home  in  Ithaca  on  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1901,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years. 

After  her  husband's  death,  Mrs.  Stowell  spent  part  of  her 
time  in  Ithaca  and  part  in  New  York  City.  She  withdrew  almost 
entirely  from  social  activities,  and  devoted  her  time  very  largely 
to  charity,  being  interested  in,  and  a  contributor  to,  a  wide  variety 
of  institutions.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Revo- 
lution and  of  the  Mayflower  Society.  She  died  on  September 
19,  1913. 


*  Henry  Stuart  Swayne 

Son  of  Justice  Noah  H.  Swayne  (LL.D.  Yale  College)  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court,  and  of  Sarah  Ann  (Wager)  Swayne.  The  family 
is  descended  from  Francis  Swayne,  who  came  to  America  with  William 
Penn,  and  settled  near  Philadelphia.  Three  brothers  are  graduates  of 
Yale  College:  Gen.  Wager  Swayne  of  the  Class  of  1856,  Noah  H. 
Swayne  of  the  Class  of  1870,  and  Frank  B.  Swayne  of  the  Class  of  iS,-_\ 

Henry  S.  Swayne  was  born  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  June  2,  1S4;. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Edwin  C.  Benson  of  Gam- 
bier,  Ohio.  He  was  a  member  of  '67  till  the  second  term  of  its 
Sophomore  year,  and  entered  '68  in  September,  1865. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  business  for  one  year. 
He  was  Assistant  Civil  Engineer  of  the  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis 


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&  Manitoba  Railroad  from  1869  till  the  spring  of  1872,  when 
he  resigned  and  went  abroad,  returning  the  following  winter. 
January  I,  1873,  he  entered  into  partnership  with  I  I.  (  tsborn  and 
H.  J.  Chase  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  under  the  firm  name  of  Osborn, 
Chase  &  Swayne,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  mouldings. 
They  were  doing  a  fine  business  until  October  2,  1873,  when  they 
were  burned  out  with  heavy  loss.  They  rebuilt  and  continued 
the  business  till  January  1,  1885,  when  Swayne  withdrew  in  order 


to  have  time  to  attend  to  the  care  of  property  in  which  he  had 
become  interested. 

He  was  married  at  Bloomington,  111.,  December  22,  1875,  to 
Sallie  W.  Davis,  daughter  of  Hon.  David  Davis,  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States.  On  the  death  of  Vice-President  Davis, 
he  was  made  executor  of  his  estate. 

In  August,  1893,  ne  returned  from  Europe,  where  he  had  been 
traveling  for  several  months.  Soon  after  his  return,  serious 
pulmonary  trouble  developed,  the  result  of  a  cold  contracted  in 
Paris.  He  grew  rapidly  worse,  and  died,  at  his  home  in  Bloom- 
ington, November  25,  1893. 


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*  James  Kingsley  Thacher 


The  eldest  son  of  Professor  Thomas  A.  Thacher  (Yale  College  1835) 
and  of  Elizabeth  (Day)  Thacher,  daughter  of  President  Jeremiah  Day 
(Yale  College  1795).  Six  brothers  are  graduates  of  Yale  College: 
Thomas  Thacher  in  1871 ;  Edward  S.  Thacher  in  1872;  Alfred  B. 
Thacher  in  1874;  Dr.  John  S.  Thacher  in  1877;  Sherman  D.  Thacher  in 
1883;    William  L.  Thacher  in  1887. 


James  K.  Thacher  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  October 
19,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School,  in  New  Haven. 

He  spent  the  first  two  years  after  graduation  as  a  teacher  in 
California,  and  the  third  in  study  in  New  Haven.  From  1871 
to  1879  he  was  tutor  in  physics  in  Yale  College.  He  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Yale  Medical  School  in  1879,  and 
at  once  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  New  Haven.  In  the 
same  year  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Physiology  in  the  Yale 
Medical  School.  The  subject  of  Clinical  Medicine  was  added 
to  his  professorship  in  1887.  In  addition  to  his  lectures  in  the 
Medical  School,  he  gave  instruction  in  physiology  and  zoology 
to  the  academic  students  until  1888. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES — GRADUATES  255 

Dr.  Thacher  was  ardently  devoted  to  his  profession.  He  car- 
ried to  the  bedside  of  his  patients  the  same  thoroughness  that 
marked  his  researches  in  more  purely  scientific  studies.  No 
detail  was  too  trivial  to  be  noted  and  weighed,  so  long  as  it 
could  have  a  bearing  upon  the  case;  and  he  felt  that  it  devolved 
upon  him  to  see  that  failure  of  treatment  did  not  come  through 
ignorance  or  want  of  care  and  attention  on  the  part  of  others. 

He  was  eminently  fair  in  his  judgments  and  inflexibly  honest 
in  the  expression  of  his  opinion,  and  hated  all  show  and 
pretension. 

He  was  not  content  simply  to  practice  medicine,  but  loved  the 
theoretical  and  practical  sides  of  his  profession,  and  visitors  in 
his  study  often  found  him  at  work  with  German  and  French 
texts,  keeping  abreast  of  the  most  authoritative  medical  con- 
clusions, especially  those  bearing  on  diagnosis,  in  which  depart- 
ment of  medical  science  he  won  distinction. 

I  lis  scientific  investigations  were  of  permanent  value.  Of 
his  published  papers,  the  following  are  best  known : 

'Median  and  Paired  Fins,  a  Contribution  to  the  History  of  Verte- 
brate Limbs."     Transactions  of  the  Connecticut  Academy,  1877,  p.  281  ff. 

"Professor  Maxwell  on  the  Relativity  of  Motion."     Mind,  April,  1879. 

"Physiological  Action  of  Electricity."     1885. 

"The  Relation  of  Cardiac  Hypertrophy  to  Nephritis."  Proceedings  of 
the  Connecticut  Medical  Society,  1888,  p.  87  ff. 

"General  Physiology  of  the  Nerves."  Buck's  Reference  Handbook  of 
Medical  Science,  Vol.  V,  pp.  136-142,  1888. 

"Pulse-wave  Velocity  and  Ventricular  Close-time  in  Health."  Trans- 
actions of  American  Physicians,  1888. 

The  first  of  these  has  been  most  widely  read.  It  involved  a 
criticism  of  Huxley  and  Geyenbaur  on  vertebrate  evolution, 
which  had  hitherto  occupied  the  field.  The  gist  of  Dr.  Thacher's 
view  was  that  the  limbs  of  the  higher  vertebrates  had  developed 
from  the  fins  of  fishes.  His  work  at  once  attracted  attention 
both  in  England  and  in  Germany. 

He  also  had  charge  of  the  department  of  medicine,  surgery 
and  physiology  in  the  Century  Dictionary,  and  his  contributions 
to  this  book  show  what  a  great  amount  of  original  literary  work 
was  prepared  by  him,  or  under  his  immediate  supervision. 

His  practice  was  extensive,  and  among  many  of  the  best  fami- 
lies in  the  city,  but  he  was  always  ready  to  attend  to  the  wants 


256  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

of  the  poor,  and  to  serve,  without  remuneration,  in  the  hospital 
and  other  public  institutions.  He  never  shrank  from  the  call 
of  duty,  however  repellant  and  uninviting,  but  devoted  himself 
to  the  relief  of  suffering  wherever  he  found  it,  and  without  any 
thought  of  his  own  discomfort  or  danger. 

His  death  was  very  sudden.  On  returning  from  his  profes- 
sional visits  on  Friday,  he  was  taken  seriously  ill  with  pneumonia, 
and  he  lived  only  until  seven  o'clock  on  the  following  Monday 
morning,  April  20,   1891. 

The  following  obituary  notice,  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  DeForest, 
was  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Connecticut  Medical 
Society  of  1891 : 

"While  ably  discharging  his  duties  as  tutor,  he  had  still  found  time  to 
make  valuable  investigation  in  regard  to  vertebrate  evolution,  and  his 
work  on  this  subject  received  wide-spread  attention  and  praise  both  in 
this  country  and  Europe.  Indeed,  when,  in  the  summer  of  1885,  Dr. 
Thacher  visited  the  various  European  countries,  he  found  that  this  work 
had  in  advance  won  him  many  warm  friends. 

"But  although  greatly  interested  in  that  department  of  science,  and 
although  especially  fitted  to  conduct  such  original  investigation,  he  felt 
himself  drawn  into  other  lines  of  work.  For  shortly  after  his  appoint- 
ment to  a  professorship  in  the  Medical  School,  that  institution  was 
reorganized  to  better  meet  the  requirements  of  the  present  time.  To  this 
work  of  reorganization  and  development  Dr.  Thacher  devoted  himself. 
A  skillful  organizer,  an  indefatigable  worker,  and  a  tireless  student,  he 
had  the  qualities  which  insure  success.  The  attainment  of  one  object  was 
but  the  incentive  to  labor  for  another,  and  the  work  grew  and  prospered 
in  his  hands.  Well  versed  in  all  branches  of  clinical  medicine,  he  was 
especially  interested  and  skilled  in  disorders  of  the  nervous  system.  A 
large  portion  of  his  time,  both  at  the  Medical  School  Clinics  and  at  the 
State  Hospital  where  he  had  for  years  been  one  of  the  staff,  was  spent 
in  studying  this  class  of  diseases. 

"In  general  practice,  his  abilities  and  learning  had  already  won  for  him 
a  high  reputation.  Entirely  free  from  all  the  small  faults  of  the  pro- 
fession, conscientious,  considerate,  modest  and  frank,  he  impressed  all 
with  his  unselfish  devotion  to  scientific  medicine.  Elevated  by  such  quali- 
ties and  ambitions,  he  made  no  enemies. 

"His  skill  in  differential  diagnosis  caused  his  advice  to  be  often  sought 
in  consultation.  To  the  young  practitioner  especially  was  Dr.  Thacher 
a  delightful  and  profitable  consultant.  His  genial  spirit  of  comradeship, 
his  genuine  and  unselfish  interest  in  a  case,  his  delight  in  investigating 
and  in  clearing  up  obscure  and  difficult  points,  in  bringing  out  the  impofv 
tant  features  of  the  disease,  and  his  skill  in  deciding  upon  their  rational 
treatment,  will  long  be  gratefully  remembered  by  many." 


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Dr.  Thacher  was  married  in  Boston,  September  10,  1878,  to 
Emily  Baldwin  Foster,  daughter  of  Judge  Dwight  Foster  (Yale 
College  1848),  and  had  three  children:  Henrietta  Foster,  bom 
January  17,  1880;  Henry  Clarke,  born  June  30,  1881;  Thomas 
Anthony,  born  July  2,  1887. 

Henrietta  Foster  was  graduated  from  Brvn  Mawr  College  in 
1901,  taught  three  years  at  the  Bryn  Mawr  School  in  Baltimore, 
and  is  now  living-  with  her  mother  at  216  Edwards  Street,  New 
Haven. 

Henry  Clarke  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1902,  and 
from  Johns  Hopkins  Medical  School  in  1906.  He  is  practicing 
medicine,  associated  with  his  uncle,  Dr.  John  Thacher,  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  married  in  Washington,  D.  C,  October  21, 
191 1,  to  Ethel,  daughter  of  Dr.  Joseph  Longworth  Anderson  of 
Cincinnati. 

Thomas  Anthony  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1908 
and  from  the  Yale  Law  School  in  1910.  He  is  in  the  law  office 
of  his  uncle,  Thomas  Thacher,  62  Cedar  Street,  New  York  City. 

^Nathaniel  Phillips  Smith  Thomas 

Son  of  Allen  M.  and  Charlotte  P.  (Smith)  Thomas,  and  brother  of 
Rev.  E.  S.  Thomas  (Yale  College  1858)  and  A.  S.  Thomas  (Yale  College 
1869). 

Nathaniel  P.  S.  Thomas  was  born  in  Wickford,  R.  I.,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1844,  and  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  Before  entering  college  he  served  as  Commodore's 
Aide  in  the  U.  S.  Navy. 

He  was  graduated  in  May,  1870,  at  the  Columbia  College  Law 
School,  and  began  practicing  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  In  1873 
he  returned  to  Wickford  to  reside,  and  opened  during  the  same 
year  a  law  office  in  Providence.  He  built  up  a  good  law  business 
and  gave  some  attention  to  politics. 

He  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island  in 
1874,  and  reelected  in  1875,  and  from  1876  to  1879  was  Clerk 
of  the  State  Senate.  In  1878  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education  at  Wickford.  From  1879  till  his  death,  he  was  one 
of  the  Commissioners  of  Shell  Fisheries,  and  made  a  careful 
study  of  the  various  methods  of  cultivating  oysters.  For  twelve 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  State  Central  Com- 
17 


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mittee  and  for  most  of  that  period  its  Secretary.  He  was  also 
Commander  of  Rodman  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  and  Judge  Advocate 
General  on  the  Staff  of  the  Department  Commander.  s 

He  had  suffered  from  angina  pectoris  for  several  years,  and 
during  the  winter  of  1889-90  he  visited  Europe  in  the  hope  that 
he  would  be  benefited  by  rest  and  a  change  of  scene.  While 
there  he  was  taken  seriously  ill  with  la  grippe  complicated  with 
pneumonia.     As  soon  as  he  was  able,  he  returned  home,  but  from 


the  effects  of  this  illness  he  never  fully  recovered.  He  died  May 
12,  1890.  His  death  came  at  last  very  suddenly,  as  he  had 
attended  to  his  duties  as  usual  the  day  before,  in  good  spirits 
and  apparently  in  comfortable  health. 


*Anson  Phelps  Tinker 


Youngest  child  of  Deacon  Reuben  Champion  and  Almira  (Wade) 
Tinker.  Reuben  Champion  Tinker,  born  at  Kartright,  N.  Y..  April  13, 
1805,  married  March  20,  1837,  Almira  Wade,  who  was  born  April  15,  1805, 
in  Old  Lyme.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  in  Old  Lyme  for  many 
years  and  died  there  January  6,  1876.     His  wife  died  there  June  12,  1888. 


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Anson  Phelps  Tinker  was  born  in  Old  Lyme,  Conn.,  October 
15,  [844.  When  he  was  about  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  entered 
on  a  business  life  in  New  York  City,  but  soon  after,  forming  the 
purpose  of  going  to  college,  he  left  New  York  and  resumed  bis 
Studies,  which  he  pursued  for  a  year  in  the  I  [igh  School  in  South 
Weymouth,  Mass. 

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Freshman  year  withdrew  on  account  of  ill-health,  and  reentered 


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in  the  fall  with  the  Class  of  '68.  He  won  prizes  in  Composition, 
Declamation  and  Debate;  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior 
Exhibition  and  Commencement,  was  an  editor  of  the  Yale  Lit- 
erary Magazine,  and  one  of  the  six  Townsend  speakers  for  the 
DeForest  Gold  Medal;  and  was  graduated  with  Philosophical 
rank  in  scholarship. 

During  the  year  following  graduation  he  studied  in  the  Yale 
Divinity  School,  and  after  that  he  was  for  a  year  Tutor  of 
Mathematics  in  Yale  College.  He  then  completed  his  theological 
studies  at  Andover,  and,  before  his  graduation  there  in  1872,  had 
accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  High  Street  Congregational 
Church   in    Auburn.    Maine.     On   account   of   ill   health   he   was 


260  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

unable  to  enter  immediately  on  his  work  and  took  a  voyage  to 
Europe,  from  which  he  returned  in  May,  1873.  He  was  ordained 
and  installed  at  Auburn,  October  16.  -' 

He  was  married,  (1)  October  9,  1873,  to  Martha  J.  White  of 
South  Weymouth.  Mrs.  Tinker  died  January  20,  1880,  and  he 
was  married,  (2)  July  20,  1881,  to  H.  Maria  Walker  of  Newton- 
ville,  Mass.,  who  died  May  12,  1882.  November  25,  1884,  he 
was  again  married,  (3)  to  Mrs.  Kate  (Elias)  Longman  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

He  had  two  children  by  his  first  marriage,  born  at  Auburn: 
Catharine  Matson,  July  26,  1874;  Chauncey  Brewster,  October 
22,  1876. 

Catharine  Matson  is  Instructor  in  Latin  and  Mathematics  in 
the  Hartford  High  School. 

Chauncey  Brewster  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
from  Yale  College  in  1899,  and  his  Doctor's  degree  in  1902. 
In  1899,  while  a  graduate  student,  he  was  made  Assistant  in 
English  in  Yale  College,  and  in  the  spring  of  1900  gave  instruc- 
tion in  English  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  In  the  year 
1902-03  he  was  Associate  in  English  at  Bryn  Mawr,  returning 
to  Yale  in  September,  1903,  to  accept  an  instructor  ship  in  English. 
He  was  made  Assistant  Professor  in  English  in  1908,  and  pro- 
moted to  a  full  professorship  in  1914.  In  a  letter  to  the  Secre- 
tary, dated  April  3,  1912,  he  writes:  "Permit  me  to  thank  the 
Class  of  1868,  in  the  name  of  the  family,  for  the  interest  which 
they  have  always  shown  in  us.  Not  the  least  pleasant  of  my 
experiences  at  Yale  has  been  the  realization  that  the  personality  of 
my  father  lingers  here  in  the  affectionate  memory  of  his  friends." 

Tinker  was  dismissed  from  his  charge  in  Auburn,  December  20, 
1882,  to  accept  the  pastorate  of  the  Fort  Street  Presbyterian 
Church,  Detroit,  Mich.,  but  nine  months  later  he  was  obliged,  on 
account  of  pulmonary  disease,  to  go  to  Colorado.  Though  par- 
tially restored  to  health,  he  was  unable  to  return  to  his  parish 
but  in  June,  1885,  undertook  the  charge  of  the  Capitol  Avenue 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Denver.  In  the  spring  of  1886  he  was 
obliged  to  give  up  preaching,  and  his  death  occurred  in  Denver, 
November  25,  1886,  at  the  age  of  forty-two. 

Mrs.  Tinker  divides  her  time  between  the  two  children,  resid- 
ing now  in  Hartford  and  now  in  New  Haven. 

Rawson's  beautiful  tribute  to  Tinker  in  the  Quarter  Century 
Class  Record  is  here  repeated: 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  26 1 

"His  exuberant  enthusiasm,  a  marked  characteristic,  united  with  a 
marvellous  patience  in  learning,  a  rare  combination,  made  his  fellowship 
an  unusual  privilege.  He  often  said  that  at  Andover  he  spent  two  of  the 
happiest  years  of  his  life.  He  was  a  good  comrade.  There  he  found 
a  group  of  Yale  men  who  were  proud  of  him,  whose  society  he  greatly- 
enjoyed :  Collins,  '67;  Woodruff.  Rawsoft,  '68;  Dana,  Phelps,  '69;  Sei- 
dell, Terry,  '70.  He  made  his  way  through  life  under  difficult  circum- 
stances, for  his  health  for  many  years,  apparently  good,  was  never  robust. 
During  all  his  professional  life  he  was  lavish  of  energetic  effort,  though 
frugal  of  energies  outside  his  vocation. 

"Every  one  knew  his  enthusiasm.  In  this  conventional  age,  it  was 
refreshing  to  see.  Coldness  never  took  this  burning  heat  out  of  him.  It 
seemed  inexhaustible.  It  found  manifestation  in  all  his  life,  whether  at 
work  or  at  play.  People  wondered  at  it  and  smiled,  and  yet  were  ever 
responsive  to  it. 

"He  was  kind  and  tender-hearted,  loving  and  forgiving.  His  sympathy 
was  an  especial  part  of  him.  A  vivid  imagination  let  him  into  the  secrets 
of  other  men's  hopes  and  fears,  so  that  he  was  of  great  help  to  them 
in  his  pulpit  and  pastoral  work. 

"One  bitterly  cold  winter  night  on  Andover  Hill,  he  suddenly  arose  from 
the  firelight,  although  it  was  late,  and,  taking  his  hat  and  coat,  went  out 
against  remonstrances,  vouchsafing  no  information  as  to  his  errand.  Not 
long  after,  it  was  learned  that  he  had  gone  to  apologize  for  a  remark, 
which  he  thought  might  possibly  have  hurt  the  feelings  of  a  classmate 
during  the  day.  The  friend  afterwards  said :  'I  wondered  at  his  coming. 
I  could  not  recall  the  remark,  and  I  knew  his  genuinely  kind  heart.'  No 
one  could  take  offence  at  him. 

"Few  men  have  had  the  gift  of  stirring  speech,  of  fervid  eloquence,  in 
greater  measure.  In  later  years  the  torrential  nature  of  his  utterances 
was  relieved  by  a  composure  which  added  dignity  to  his  address  and  great 
charm  of  contrast. 

"In  1883,  at  Commencement,  he  spoke  at  the  Alumni  Meeting  for  the 
class.  Xo  one  who  was  present  will  ever  forget  his  words.  He  spoke  from 
his  heart,  and  most  eloquently.  Allusion  had  been  made  to  the  poverty 
of  the  University  and  its  great  needs.  With  a  quick  turn  of  speech  he 
evoked  exceeding  applause,  saying:  'Poor?  poor?  Yes,  but  making 
many  rich.' 

"The  value  of  a  life  is  not  measured  by  the  number  of  years,  but  by 
the  quality  and  force  of  living.  In  this  way  judged,  his  was  an  emi- 
nently successful  life.  He  put  more  of  himself  into  his  work,  and  sent 
more  of  his  personality  afloat  on  the  current  of  his  time,  than  is  possible 
with  most  men.  His  Christian  character  no  man  ever  doubted.  The 
good  he  did  lives  after  him  in  lives  stimulated,  comforted,  inspired.  The 
memory  of  a  personality  singularly  unique  in  its  geniality,  intellectual 
power  and  fervor  of  soul,  remains  with  us  as  a  priceless  possession.  To 
remember  him  is  to  cherish  the  precious  memory  of  a  rare,  a  radiant 
life." 


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*  James  Trimble 


Son  of  John  and  Margaret  (McEwen)  Trimble.  His  first  American 
ancestor  on  his  father's  side  came  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  during 
Colonial  times,  and  settled  in  Rockbridge  County,  Virginia,  near  the 
Natural  Bridge,  where  he  acquired  a  large  landed  estate.  He  had  a 
family  of  ten  children,  from  whom  the  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Kentucky, 
and  Tennessee  Trimbles  are  descended.  His  great-grandfather,  John 
Trimble,  left  Virginia  and  settled  in  Roane  County,  East  Tennessee.  His 
grandfather,  James  Trimble,  an  only  child,  was  there  born.  He  was 
United  States  District  Attorney  under  President  Jefferson,  and  for  many 
years  State  Circuit  Court  Judge  in  East  Tennessee.  His  father,  John 
Trimble,  was  at  various  times  a  member  of  the  Tennessee  House  of 
Representatives,  also  many  times  a  State  Senator,  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Supreme  Court,  and  also  a  member  of  Congress.  He  was  noted 
for  his  intense  loyalty  to  the  United  States  Government  during  the  period 
of  the  Civil  War. 


James  Trimble  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  September  2J, 
1845,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School. 


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After  graduation  he  returned  to  Nashville  and  studied  law  in 
his  father's  office.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  May,  1869, 
and  at  once  began  practice  in  his  native  city,  devoting  himself 
almost  exclusively  to  Courts  and  Equities.  From  April,  1871, 
to  October,  1880,  he  was  United  States  Circuit  Court  Commis- 
sioner for  the  Middle  District  of  Tennessee,  and  from  the  spring 
of  1874  to  March,  1879,  a  Special  United  States  Commissioner 
for  the  Court  of  Claims  for  the  same  district.  At  one  time  he 
entered  actively  into  politics.  During  the  years  1881  and  1882 
lie  was  a  member  of  the  Tennessee  House  of  Representatives, 
and  in  1887  and  1888  a  member  of  the  State  Senate.  He  retired 
from  politics  in  1888,  and  gave  his  time  exclusively  to  law 
practice. 

He  was  married  at  Nashville,  October  26,  1876,  to  Letitia 
Lindsley,  and  had  three  children:  Adrienne  Lindsley,  born 
November  27,  1877,  died  July  3,  1878;  James  Lindsley,  born 
February  1,  1880,  died  February  4,  1880;  James,  Jr.,  born 
September  9,  1892.  His  wife,  Letitia  Lindsley  Trimble,  died 
September  24,  1894,  and  he  was  again  married,  February  12, 
1896,  to  Marina  Turner  Woods,  who  still  survives  him. 

James  Trimble  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Nashville  on 
August  6,  191 1,  in  the  sixty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 


*  Samuel  Tweedy 

Son  of  Edgar  S.  and  Elizabeth  Sarah  (Belden)  Tweedy.  He  was  of 
the  fifth  generation  in  direct  descent  from  John  Tweedy,  of  Scotch  ances- 
try, who  came  to  America  about  1738,  and  who  was  married  in  Woodbury, 
Conn.,  to  Jane  Edmunds.  They  had  four  children:  Jane,  Samuel,  John, 
and  Ruth.  His  great-grandfather,  Samuel  Tweedy,  was  born  in  1744  and 
was  married  in  1769  at  Nine  Partners,  N.  Y.,  to  Ann  Smith,  by  whom 
he  had  six  children :  Reuben,  William,  John,  Samuel,  Ann,  and  Smith. 
His  grandfather,  Samuel  Tweedy,  was  born  March  18,  1776,  and  on 
September  22,  1805,  was  married  to  Ann  Burr.  Of  their  seven  children, 
two  died  in  infancy  and  the  others  were  Oliver  B.,  Edgar  S.,  Mariette, 
Edmund,  and  John  H.  His  father,  Edgar  S.  Tweedy,  was  born  May  23, 
1808.  He  was  a  leading  manufacturer  of  Danbury,  Conn.,  and  an  original 
director  of  the  Danbury  &  Norwalk  Railroad.  On  June  4,  1834,  he  was 
married  to  Elizabeth  S.  Belden.  They  had  ten  children:  Annie,  wife  of 
Charles  H.  Benedict  (died  February  15,  1893)  ;  two  daughters  each  named 
Martha,  who  died  in  infancy;  Edmund,  Jennie  B.,  John,  Samuel,  Edgar, 
Elizabeth  (who  died  in  infancy),  and  Eleanor.  Mr.  Edgar  S.  Tweedy 
died  March  10,  1893. 


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Samuel  Tweedy  was  born  April  21,  1846,  in  Danbury,  Conn., 
and  was  prepared  for  college  under  Professor  Edward  Olmsted 
at  AYilton  Academy.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  Jubilee 
Committee  and  of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee,  represented 
the  class  on  the  Thanksgiving  Jubilee  Committee  in  1867,  rowed 
on  the  class  gig  crew  in  Senior  year,  and  was  graduated  with 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship. 


He  studied  at  Columbia  College  Law  School  from  October, 
[868,  to  January,  1870,  and  afterwards  in  the  office  of  Averill 
&  Iirewster  at  Danbury,  and  was  admitted  to  the  liar  on  Janu- 
ary 19,  1871,  at  Bridgeport.  He  at  once  began  practice  in  1  )an- 
bury.  March  I,  1871,  he  went  into  company  with  his  instructor 
in  law,  Lyman  1).  Brewster  (Yale  College  1855),  Mr.  Averill 
having  retired  from  the  partnership  with  Mr.  Brewster.  In 
August,  1878,  Howard  B.  Scott  (Amherst  College  1874)  wa$ 
admitted  as  a  partner,  and  the  firm  name  became  Brewster, 
Tweedy  &  Scott.  Mr.  lirewster  withdrew  September  1.  1892. 
and  a  new  firm  of  Tweedy,  Scott  &  Whittlesey  was  formed.  Mr. 
(  rranville  Whittlesey  becoming  a  partner.  In  1906  he  joined  with 
COl.  J.  M.  Ives,  and  the  firm  became    Tweedy  &   [ves. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES GRADUATES  265 

He  was  married  in  Danbury,  on  July  16,  1879,  to  Carrie  M. 
Krom.    A  daughter,  Maude  Douglass,  was  born  March  21,  1887. 

lie  took  an  interest  in  public  affairs,  but  never  sought  office 
and  refused  to  be  a  candidate  for  any  public  position  except  on 
the  Board  of  Education  of  Danbury,  of  which  lie  was  a  member 
for  many  years. 

Tweedy  was  one  of  the  ablest,  best  loved,  and  most  successful 
lawyers  in  Fairfield  County.  He  excelled  as  a  trial  lawyer. 
being  especially  skillful  in  cross  examination,  and  had  tried  many 
of  the  most  important  cases  that  had  come  before  the  courts  in 
the  county  during  the  last  twenty-five  years.  His  sunny  dis- 
position made  him  popular  with  everybody,  and  his  sincerity  and 
fairness  gave  him  great  influence  with  judge  and  jury.  He  was 
noted  f<»r  his  thoroughness  and  conscientiousness  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  his  cases,  and  his  untiring  devotion  to  his  professional 
duties  no  doubt  shortened  his  life.  The  preparation  of  cases  that 
he  was  t<>  try  in  the  Superior  and  Common  Pleas  Courts  deprived 
him  of  the  greater  part  of  his  summer  vacation  of  1910.  He 
went  for  a  little  rest  to  his  summer  home  on  Bell  Island,  South 
Nbrwalk,  toward  the  end  of  September.  On  October  2  he  was 
suddenly  attacked  with  acute  Bright's  disease,  from  which  he  died 
October  6,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Fairfield  County  Bar,  October  21,  1910, 
Judge  Dempsey  said  of  him: 

"It  was  never  necessary  to  speculate  as  to  where  he  stood  upon  ques- 
tions involving  honor  and  heart  interest,  as  he  was  constitutionally  stead- 
fast to  all  that  was  just,  tender,  and  fair.  The  one  great  ambition  and 
object  of  his  professional  career  was  to  be  remembered  as  a  skillful  and 
competent  lawyer.  In  this  his  life  ambition  was  attained.  Triumph  in 
itself  meant  little  to  him,  but  the  productive  results  of  conscientious 
labor  and  self-sacrifice  appealed  to  him  as  things  worth  while.  Religion 
with  him  was  a  personal  matter,  and  was  exemplified  in  his  belief  and 
practice  that  one  way  to  worship  God  was  in  the  daily  treatment  of  his 
beings/' 

Mr.  William  T.  Haviland  (Yale  College  1883),  Clerk  of  the 
Superior  Court,  has  kindly  furnished  the  following  estimate  of 
Mr.  Tweedy,  taken  from  the  resolutions  presented  at  this  meet- 
ing by  a  committee  consisting  of  Howard  B.  Scott,  Robert  E. 
DeForest,  and  J.  Belden  Hurlburt,  and  ordered  spread  upon  the 
records  of  the  Court : 


266  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

"His  intellect  was  clear  and  powerful,  his  physique  was  remarkable  for 
strength  and  endurance,  and  he  had  a  charm  of  manner  that  never  failed 
to  attract  those  with  whom  he  came  into  contact.  Possessed  of  all  the 
advantages,  he  achieved  success  in  his  profession  from  the  first,  and 
became  a  leader  of  the  Bar  while  still  a  young  man,  retaining  his  leader- 
ship to  the  end.  His  devotion  to  his  profession  was  very  marked.  Had 
he  chosen  to  enter  the  field  of  politics,  his  ability  and  personality  would 
have  secured  him  high  official  position ;  but  he  loved  the  practice  of  law 
so  well  that  he  steadfastly  declined  all  invitations  to  abandon  it  even 
temporarily.  His  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  law  was  exhaustive, 
and  while  he  was  faithful  and  tireless  in  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  his  clients, 
his  mind  was  so  calm  and  equable  that  he  was  never  led  away  by  the 
enthusiasm  of  advocacy  to  assume  extreme  and  untenable  positions  of 
law.  As  a  counselor,  he  merited  and  inspired  unlimited  confidence.  As 
a  trier,  he  was  especially  distinguished  by  the  careful  preparation  of  his 
case,  by  his  skill  in  the  examination  and  cross-examination  of  witnesses, 
and  by  the  calmness  and  courage  that  he  always  displayed  during  a  trial. 
He  was  a  model  of  courtesy  and  fairness  towards  his  opponents,  and  his 
kindly  and  genial  disposition  won  the  affection  of  all  who  knew  him.'' 

*  Edward  Jefferson  Tytus 

Son  of  Francis  J.  and  Sarah  (Butler)  Tytus,  was  born  in 
Middletown,  Ohio,  August  2.2.,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  home  by  Mr.  J.  F.  Elder.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Freshman  Jubilee  Committee,  of  the  Junior  Promenade  Com- 
mittee, of  the  Wooden  Spoon  Committee,  and  of  the  Thanks- 
giving Jubilee  Committee  of  Junior  year. 

After  leaving  college  he  spent  a  year  in  Middletown,  engaged 
in  farming.  He  then  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where,  in 
company  with  his  brother,  J.  B.  Tytus  of  70,  he  opened  a  whole- 
sale paper  warehouse.  In  August,  1871,  his  brother  retired  from 
the  business,  and  a  new  firm  was  formed  under  the  firm  name  of 
Tytus,  Van  Buren  &  Company.  This  partnership  was  dissolved 
in  November,  1874. 

In  April,  1875,  he  sailed  for  Europe,  and  while  there  was 
warned  of  serious  trouble  in  his  lungs.  Returning  to  this 
country  in  November,  1875,  by  the  advice  of  his  physician  he 
spent  this  winter  and  the  following  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  and  the 
two  succeeding  years,  both  summer  and  winter,  in  the  Adiron- 
dack woods.  During  all  this  time  he  was  slowly  but  surely  los- 
ing ground,  but  was  generally  cheerful  and  hopeful  of  a  possible 
recovery.     After  a  heroic  struggle  against  the  disease  which  he 


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could  not  overcome,  he  died,  May  19,  1881,  at  Saranac  Lake, 
X.  Y.,  in  his  thirty-fourth  year. 

The  first  symptoms  of  the  disease  which  terminated  his  life 
appeared  so  early  after  his  graduation,  that  Tytus  never  had  the 
opportunity,  which  he  so  much  desired,  of  devoting  himself  to  a 
life  work.  In  college  he  was  deservedly  popular,  and  received 
many  proofs  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held. 

He  was  married,  June  24,  1874,  to  Charlotte  Mathilde  Davies, 
daughter  of  John  M.  Davies,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and 


had  one  son:  Robb  DePeyster  Tytus,  born  at  Asheville,  N.  C, 
February  2,  1876;  received  from  Yale  College  the  degree  of 
B.A.  in  1897  and  of  M.A.  in  1903.  He  was  married  May  10, 
1903,  to  Grace  Seely  Henop,  daughter  of  Louis  P.  and  Alice 
(Seely)  Henop,  and  had  two  daughters:  Mildred  Mordaunt, 
born  at  Cairo,  Egypt,  April  7,  1904,  and  Victoria,  born  October 
22,  1909.  In  1903  he  purchased  fifteen  hundred  acres  of  land 
in  Tyringham,  Mass.,  and  became  deeply  interested  in  practical 
farming.  In  1908,  and  again  in  1909,  he  represented  his  district 
in  the  Massachusetts  legislature.  He  died  of  pulmonary  tuber- 
culosis at  Saranac  Lake,  August  15,  1913. 


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*  Spencer  Reynolds  Van  Deusen 

Son  of  Stephen  and  Ann  Van  Deusen,  was  born  December  31, 
1842,  at  Moreau,  Saratoga  County,  X.  Y.,  and  came  to  college 
from  Ghent,  in  the  same  state,  having  been  prepared  at  the  Hud- 
son River  Institute  at  Claverack.  During  Senior  year  he  was 
afflicted  with  mental  disease,  and  was  obliged  to  leave  college 
before  graduation,  but  received  his  degree  with  his  class. 

He  was  taken  soon  after  to  an  asylum  at  Utica,  X.  Y.,  where 
he  remained  two  years,  when,  seeming  somewhat  improved,  he 
returned  home.  But  it  was  soon  discovered  that  his  case  was 
hopeless,  and  he  was  sent,  May  14,  1872,  to  the  Willard  Asylum 
for  the  Insane,  at  Seneca  Lake.  Here  he  had  the  best  of  care, 
but  there  was  at  no  time  any  change  for  the  better  in  his  mental 
condition.  He  died  of  pleurisy,  May  16,  1881,  in  his  thirty-ninth 
year,  and  his  remains  were  taken  to  Chatham,  Columbia  County, 
X.  Y.,  for  interment. 


John  Leonard  Varick 

Son  of  Abraham  and  Margaret  V.  S.  (Bronk)  Varick.  His  great- 
great-uncle,  Col.  Richard  Varick,  was  Private  Secretary  to  General  Wash- 
ington during  the  Revolution,  and  was  Mayor  of  New  York  City  for 
twelve  years.  The  name  Bronx,  applied  to  one  of  the  Boroughs  of 
Greater  New  York,  is  from  an  ancestor  on  his  mother's  side  named 
Bronk.  The  name  Bronx  is  another  form  of  Bronk's,  as  applied  to  the 
river  and   village    (ville). 

John  L.  Varick  was  born  in  Poughkeepsie,  XT.  Y.,  December 
1,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Warring' s  Military 
Academy  in  that  city.  He  was  Secretary  of  Brothers,  played 
third  base  on  the  Yrale  Nine,  and  graduated  with  an  Oration  rani; 
ii.  scholarship. 

Since  graduation  he  has  been  in  Xew  York  City,  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business,  located  at  107  Chambers  Street  and  else- 
where in  Xew  York  City.  From  the  time  of  its  establishment  in 
Xew  York  City  in  1869  till  1913  he  was  associated  with  the  UpsOflj 
Post  &  Frisbie  Company  and  the  Union  Nut  Company,  the  selling" 
agents  in  that  city  of  the  Upson  Xut  Company  of  Unionville, 
Conn.,  and  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  both  of  which  he  was  also  inter- 
ested.    He  was  Treasurer  of  the  Union  Nut  &  Bolt  Company, 


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successors  of  the  Union  Nut  Company,  of  New  York  and  Chi- 
cago; Director  in  the  Upson  Nut  Company,  rnimiville,  Conn., 
and  Cleveland,  Ohio:  and  is  Director  in  the  Miller's  tails  Com- 
pany, Miller's  Falls,  Mass. 

He  was  Secretary  of  the  Hardware  Club  of  New  York  from 
March  19,  1892,  to  March  28,  1898,  when  he  refused  reelection, 
served  two  years  as  Vice-President  and  two  years  as  President 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Hard- 


ware Club  since  its  incorporation  in  1892.  He  was  President 
of  the  Dutchess  County  Society  from  1905  to  1907  and  is  again 
one  of  its  trustees  after  a  short  interim. 

Yarick  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Yale  Club  of  New  York,  the  Hardware  Club  of  New  York, 
Graduates  Club  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  the  Holland  Society,  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  Society  of  New  York,  Dutchess  County  Society  of 
New  York,  and  of  the  Quill  Club  of  New  York. 

He  was  married  to  Julie  Henriques  de  Leon,  October  16,  1883, 
at  Calvary  Church,  New  York  City. 


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*James  Mitchell  Varnum 

Was  on  the  paternal  side  a  descendant  of  George  Varnum,  who  came 
to  America  from  England  about  1635,  and  of  Colonel  Joseph  Varnum 
and  Major  Samuel  Varnum  of  Massachusetts,  who  were  officers  in  the 
Colonial  wars;  was  a  great-grandson  of  Major  General  Joseph  B.  Var- 
num of  Massachusetts,  who  served  in  the  Army  of  the  Revolution  and 
in  the  Massachusetts  militia,  was  Speaker  of  the  United  States  House  of 
Representatives,  President  pro  tern,  of  the  United  States  Senate,  and  held 
other  prominent  public  offices ;  was  great-grandnephew  and  senior  repre- 
sentative of  Major  General  James  M.  Varnum  of  Rhode  Island,  Brigadier 
General  in  the  Continental  line  and  Major  General  in  the  Rhode  Island 
militia  (serving  with  the  Comte  de  Rochambeau),  member  of  Continental 
Congress,  United  States  Judge  of  Northwestern  Territory  in  1787;  grand- 
son of  Captain  James  M.  Varnum,  an  officer  in  the  War  of  1812 :  and 
son  of  Hon.  Joseph  B.  Varnum  (Yale  College  1838),  a  prominent  law- 
yer and  citizen  of  New  York  and  Speaker  of  the  New  York  State 
Assembly.     His  mother  was  Susan  M,   (Graham)   Varnum. 

James  M.  Varnum  was  born  in  New  York  City,  June  29,  1848. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight  of 
that  city.  He  was  a  good  debater  and  won  first  prize  in  the 
Linonia  Prize  Debate  of  Junior  year.  He  also  wrote  poetry,  and 
was  one  of  the  three  candidates  for  the  position  of  Class  Poet. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  27  I 

He  spent  a  year  after  graduation  in  Europe,  engaged  in  travel. 
In  October,  1869,  he  entered  Columbia  College  Law  School, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1871,  beginning  at  once  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  New  York  City  as  junior  member  of  the  firm 
of  Varnum,  Turney  &  Harison. 

In  [879  and  1880  he  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Legis- 
lature, and  in  the  latter  year  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Cities.  For  three  years  (1880-82)  he  was  on  the  Military 
Staff  of  Governor  Cornell,  as  senior  Aide-de-Camp,  and  ranking 
as  Colonel  in  the  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
In  1S81  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  State 
of  New  York  to  receive  the  French  and  German  guests  at  the 
Yorktown  celebration.  In  1883  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Arrangements  in  charge  of  the  Centennial  Celebration 
of  the  Evacuation  of  New  York  City.  In  1889  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Committee  of  five  having  the  general  supervision  of  the 
Centennial  Celebration  of  Washington's  Inauguration.  In  April, 
1893,  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  great  Columbia 
Ball  in  honor  of  the  Duke  of  Veragua  and  the  naval  officers  of 
the  ten  nations  represented  at  the  great  Naval  Review.  In  the 
same  year  he  was  Chairman  of  the  special  committee  of  the  City 
of  New  York  for  the  reception  of  H.  R.  H.  the  Infanta  Eulalie 
of  Spain,  the  guest  of  the  nation  at  the  World's  Fair  Celebration. 
In  1896  he  organized  and  commanded  as  Grand  Marshal  the 
brigade  of  three  thousand  five  hundred  lawyers  of  New  York 
of  all  parties  in  the  great   "Sound  Money  Parade." 

Varnum  was  a  Republican  in  politics  and  always  took  a  great 
interest  in  political  matters,  but  after  he  declined  a  reelection  to 
the  Legislature  in  1881  he  refused  to  be  a  candidate  for  any 
political  office  not  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  profession  of  the  law. 
In  1889  he  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  for  Attorney  Gen- 
eral of  the  State,  but  was  defeated,  although  polling  about  490,000 
votes  and  running  about  12,000  votes  ahead  of  the  Republican 
ticket.  In  1890  he  was  the  Republican,  County  Democratic,  and 
Citizens'  Candidate  for  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  but  with 
all  on  his  ticket  failed  of  an  election  in  the  tidal  wave  of  that  year. 
In  1 89 1  he  was  elected  permanent  Chairman  of  the  Republican 
State  Convention  at  Rochester,  and  delivered  the  principal 
address  on  that  occasion. 


272  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

On  January  i,  1894,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Levi  P. 
Morton  Paymaster  General  of  the  State  of  New  York,  with  the 
rank  of  Brigadier  General  in  the  National  Guard.  In  1896  he 
became  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Varnum  &  Harison. 

In  February,  1899,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Theodore 
Roosevelt  as  the  Surrogate  of  New  York  County. 

After  his  retirement  from  the  bench,  Judge  Varnum  returned 
to  active  practice  in  his  profession,  confining  himself,  however 
to  certain  special  branches  of  the  law.  After  this  time  he  did 
not  take  any  special  active  interest  in  political,  public  or  social 
matters,  but  devoted  himself  exclusively  to  his  profession.  In 
January,  1903,  he  was  complimented  by  the  French  Govern 
ment  by  his  appointment  as  a  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor 
of  France  (the  national  order). 

Varnum  was  a  member  of  the  Bar  Association,  the  Century, 
Union,  Metropolitan  and  University  clubs,  having  been  one  of 
the  Governors  of  the  latter.  He  was  a  hereditary  member  of 
the  old  Revolutionary  Order  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  a 
member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution  and  of  the  Society  of  the 
War  of  1 81 2  and  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 

He  was  also  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  New  York 
Real  Estate  Exchange,  was  acting  chairman  at  the  first  meeting, 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  dedication  of  the  new  Exchange 
(delivering  one  of  the  principal  addresses  on  that  occasion),  and 
was  for  three  years  chairman  of  the  Legislative  Committee  of 
the  Exchange.  He  was  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Lawyers' 
Title  Insurance  Company  (elected  from  members  of  the  Bar), 
a  Trustee  of  the  Real  Estate  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  and  was 
connected  with  other  financial  or  business  corporations. 

June  14,  1899,  he  was  married  to  Alary  Witherspoon  Dickey, 
daughter  of  Charles  D.  Dickey,  formerly  a  partner  in  the  bank* 
ing  house  of  Brown  Brothers. 

Varnum  was  fatally  injured  in  an  automobile  accident  on 
Broadway,  New  York,  and  died  at  Roosevelt  Hospital,  March 
26,  1907,  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  his  age. 


Sheldon  Thompson  Viele 

Son  of  Henry  Knickerbocker  Viele,  lawyer  and  Colonel  of  a  New 
York  regiment  in  the  Civil  War,  born  1819,  died  1881 ;  a  son  of  John 
Ludovicus  Viele,  lawyer,  born  1788,  died  1832,  State  Senator  in  1822  an<l 


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273 


fnnn  1826  to  1829,  the  orator  who  received  LaFayette  in  1825  when  lu- 
re-visited the  battle  field  of  Saratoga,  in  1832  elected  a  Regent  of  the 
University  of  the  State  of  New  York;  descended  from  Pieter  Comelison 
Viele,  whose  father  came  from  Holland  early  in  the  seventeenth  century. 
Henry  K.  Viele  married  Laetitia  Porter  Thompson,  daughter  of  Sheldon 
Thompson,  long  one  of  the  prominent  business  nun  and  citizens  of  the 
City  of  Buffalo.  He  was  the  first  Mayor  of  Buffalo  elected  by  the  people 
(  1S40)  :  descended  from  Colonel  Jabez  Thompson,  who  was  an  officer 
in  the  French  War,  a  Colonel  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  killed  in  the 
retreat   from  New  York,  September   15,   1776;    descended   from   Anthony 


Thompson,  who  came  with  Governor  Eaton,  Rev.  Mr.  Davenport,  and 
others  from  London,  England,  in  1637,  in  the  ship  Hector,  and  settled  in 
New  Haven,  Conn.  He  signed  the  New  Haven  Compact  in  June.  1639. 
John  L.  Viele  married  Catalina  Knickerbocker,  granddaughter  of  Colonel 
John  Knickerbocker  of  Schaghticoke,  who  served  in  the  French  War  and 
was  commissioned  a  Colonel  of  the  New  York  militia  in  1775,  was  present 
and  wounded  at  the  Battle  of  Saratoga,  and  served  in  the  Legislature  in 
1792 ]  descended  from  John  van  Berghen,  called  Knickerbacker,  the  third 
son  of  Godfrey  van  Berghen,  Count  van  Grimberghen.  John  van  Berghen 
was  a  captain  in  the  Xetherland  navy,  and  afterward  came  to  the  New 
Netherlands  and  died  there  in  1656. 


Sheldon  T.  Viele  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Walnut   Hil 
18 


January  4.  1847, 
School,  Geneva. 


274  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

N.  Y.  He  was  awarded  Composition  prizes,  and  a  special  prize 
for  a  Poem  in  Sophomore  year,  wrote  the  Colloquy  for  the 
Wooden  Spoon  Exhibition,  and  the  Parting  Ode  for  Presenta- 
tion Day. 

After  graduation  he  studied  law  at  Buffalo,  in  the  office  of 
E.  C.  Sprague,  Esq.,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  November, 
1869,  and  began  practice  for  himself  in  May,  1871.  In  Jan- 
uary, 1887,  he  became  associated  with  Willis  O.  Chapin,  form- 
ing the  law  firm  of  Viele  &  Chapin,  since  dissolved. 

On  January  6,  1885,  he  presided  as  toastmaster  at  the  first 
Yale  Dinner  held  in  Buffalo.  On  his  right,  as  guest  of  honor, 
sat  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hunn  of  the  Class  of  181 3,  at  that  time  "the 
oldest  living  graduate."  So  all  who  attended  that  dinner  and 
are  still  living  have  seen  Yale  graduates  a  hundred  years  apart. 
A  result  of  that  dinner  was  the  formation  of  the  "Yale  Alumni 
Association  of  Western  New  York,"  since  resolved  into  the 
associations  of  Buffalo  and  Rochester  respectively. 

In  1878  he  was  the  first  secretary  of  the  first  district  committee 
of  the  first  Charity  Organization  Society  in  the  country  (though 
now  every  city  of  any  importance  has  one  and  the  principles 
of  the  society  are  generally  acknowledged  to  be  correct).  He 
was  a  Trustee  of  the  Society  from  its  incorporation  until  1908. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Buffalo  Civil  Service  Reform  Association  since  its  organization; 
a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Bar  Association  and  of  the 
Lawyers'  Club  of  Buffalo;  Trustee  of  St.  Margaret's  School; 
Vice-President  for  Buffalo  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  York 
President  of  the  Buffalo  Association  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion; a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  War  of  1812;  a  member 
of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars ;  a  member  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  United  States;  and  a  Vestry- 
man of  St.  Paul's  Church.  He  has  also  been  Curator  of  the 
Buffalo  Library  (1886-89)  ;  Director  of  the  Buffalo  Club  (1887- 
89)  ;  Dean  of  the  Saturn  Club  in  1889;  President  of  the  A.  K.  E. 
Association  of  Western  New  York  in  1888;  first  President  of 
the  University  Club  of  Buffalo  (1894-97);  President  of  the 
Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Western  New  York  (1895-96). 
June  16,  1906,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Higgins  State 
Lunacy  Commissioner.  The  Buffalo  Nezvs  of  the  following  ds 
said  of  this  appointment: 


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"Mr.  Viele  is  a  man  of  the  highest  personal  character,  and  his  stand- 
ing in  this  community  is  of  the  best.  There  is  a  general  agreement  that 
in  experience  and  legal  learning  and  personal  character  he  is  an  admirable 
selection  on  the  part  of  Governor  Higgins  for  the  position  of  the  law 
member  of  the  State  Commission  in  Lunacy.  He  has  had  special  experi- 
ence in  dealing  with  such  work  as  falls  to  the  Commission  to  which  he 
is  now  appointed,  owing  to  personal  and  professional  relations  to  the 
local  institution,  and  will  abundantly  justify  the  executive  choice." 

He  filled  this  office  to  the  satisfaction  of  everybody,  was  reap- 
pointed by  Governor  Charles  E.  Hughes  in  1907,  and  continued 
to  hold  it  till  the  election  of  Governor  Dix  resulted  in  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  personal  friend  of  the  new  governor  in  his  place. 

In  February,  1880,  he  was  awarded  the  prize  ($250)  of  the 
New  York  State  Bar  Association  for  the  best  essay  on  the  sub- 
ject: "Is  the  Common  Law  a  Proper  Subject  for  Codification?" 
He  has  published : 

"State  Legislation  and  Charity  Organization,"  in  the  Albany  Law 
Journal. 

"Democratic  Principle  of  Civil  Service  Reform,"  in  the  collection  of 
"Papers  Read  Before  the  Cleveland  Democracy." 

"The  Memoir  of  Sheldon  Thompson,"    Buffalo,  1884. 

"A  Glimpse  of  Holland  in  1888,"  a  journal-narrative  of  the  visit  of 
the  Holland  Society  to  the  Netherlands.     New  York,  1890. 

"The  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Western  New  York,"  in  the  Uni- 
versity Magazine  for  1896. 

Papers  and  addresses  before  New  York  State  Bar  Association  and  other 
bodies. 

He  was  married  at  Buffalo,  June  5,  1877,  to  Anna  Porter  Dorr, 
and  has  five  children: 

Grace,  born  December  20,  1878,  graduated  at  Smith  College  in 
1901. 

Dorr,  born  August  25,  1880,  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1902 
and  at  the  Law  School  of  the  University  of  Buffalo  in  1904. 

Anna,  born  August  22,  1884. 

Laetitia,  born  September  17,  1890. 

Sheldon  Knickerbocker,  born  November  18,  1892,  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Class  of  1916  in  Yale  College. 


*Douglas  Walcott 

Son   of    Erastus    Bradley   Walcott    (M.D.    College   of    Physicians   and 
Surgeons,  New  York  City)   and  of  Elizabeth  Jane   (Dousman)    Walcott. 


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Douglas  Walcott  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  May  20,  1844, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy.  He 
was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Yale  C  our  ant. 

After  graduation  he  spent  one  year  at  the  Xew  York  City 
Medical  School,  but  was  not  able  to  complete  the  course.  His 
health  was  so  much  impaired  that  for  several  years  he  was  not 
in  a  condition  to  attend  to  any  business.  But  in  1876  he  had 
so  far  recovered  that  he  determined  to  go  to  the  East  to  engage 


in  missionary  work.  In  July  of  that  year  he  sailed  for  India, 
where  he  labored  without  compensation  as  a  missionary  till  1879, 
when  ill-health  made  a  change  necessary.  After  a  few  months 
of  travel  in  India,  he  sailed  for  Melbourne,  Australia,  and  was  in 
charge  of  a  large  city  mission  there  till  July,  1881.  At  this 
time  he  left  Australia  to  accompany  a  friend  far  gone  with  con- 
sumption, who  was  anxious  to  reach  his  home  in  Bristol,  England. 
before  he  died. 

Walcott's  health  did  not  allow  him  to  return  to  missionary 
service.  He  therefore  decided  at  once  to  spend  his  time  chictly 
in  travel,  with  the  hope  that  changes  in  climate  and  exercise 
would  bring  about  an  improvement  in  his  physical  condition.     The 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  277 

result  was  a  state  of  health  better  than  he  had  ever  known  before. 
The  lung  trouble,  from  which  he  had  been  a  sufferer  so  long, 
seemed  to  have  been  permanently  cured,  and  he  was  able  to  tramp 
thirty-five  to  forty  miles  a  day,  for  many  succeeding-  days,  with- 
out unusual  fatigue.  On  one  trip  among  the  mountains,  in  1888, 
he  walked  nearly  three  thousand  miles  in  eighty-three  days. 

In  September,  1895,  while  living  in  Baltimore,  which  had  long 
been  his  permanent  residence,  his  old  trouble  returned,  and  as  he 
began  to  sink  rapidly  he  removed  to  Colorado,  living  for  a  time 
at  Colorado  Springs  and  later  in  Denver.  Here  his  health 
improved,  and  he  was  comfortable  for  a  few  years,  though  he 
never  regained  his  normal  strength. 

He  died  in  Denver  as  the  result  of  a  fall,  June  29,  1899,  at 
the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  Funeral  services  were  held  on  July 
1.  in  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  that  city,  of  which  he 
was  a  member.  Interment  was  in  the  lot  of  the  Denver  Young- 
Men's  Christian  Association,  in  Fairmount  Cemetery. 

Walcott's  life  was  freely  devoted  to  charitable  and  missionary 
work.  For  his  Christian  service  in  India  and  Australia  he  would 
take  no  compensation.  His  constitution  was  frail  and  his 
health  infirm  during  his  entire  life,  but  he  never  spared  himself 
when  suffering  or  distress  called  on  him  for  aid.  Wherever 
he  went  he  left  a  record  of  fearless  self-sacrifice  and  devotion 
to  duty.  He  was  extremely  warm-hearted  and  strongly  attached 
to  his  friends. 


Henry  Lucius  Washburn 

Son  of  Lucius  and  Eliza  A.  (Billings)  Washburn,  was  born  in 
Windsor  Locks,  Conn.,  January  22,  1847,  and  came  to  college 
from  Stafford  Springs,  Conn.  He  was  prepared  at  Wesleyan 
Academy,  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  and  spent  Freshman  year  at  Wes- 
leyan University,  Middletown,  entering  the  Class  of  '68  at  Yale 
in  September,  1865. 

After  spending  some  time  in  Europe,  he  studied  law  at  Colum- 
bia College  Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Tolland 
County,  Conn.  In  October,  1871,  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  Russell,  under  the  firm  name  of  Russell  &  Washburn,  and 
practiced  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  till  the  partnership  was  dissolved 
in  the  fall  of  1874.     Soon  after,  he  opened  a  law  office  in  Boston, 


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where  he  remained  until  the  fall  of  1879.  He  then  removed  to 
New  York  City,  where  he  has  since  continued  the  practice  of 
patent  law,  giving-  considerable  attention  to  other  business  con- 
nected with  patents. 

He  was  married  October  30,  1873,  at  Gardner,  Mass.,  to  Mary 
Sawin,  who  died  September  14,  1882.  June  25,  1885,  he  was 
again  married  to  Louise  Cunningham,  in  New  York  City.     He 


has  two  children:    Emily,  born   in   Burlington,   Vt.,   August  6, 
1874;   Helen  Louise,  born  in  New  York  City,  June  2,  1887. 


*  Samuel  Watson 

Son  of  Hon.  Samuel  Watson  (Brown  University  1825)  and  of  Char- 
lotte (Morton)  Watson,  and  brother  of  William  Parsons  Watson  (Yale 
College  1869).  His  father  removed  to  Nashville  from  Providence,  R.  I., 
and  was  President  of  the  old  Bank  of  Tennessee,  a  Trustee  of  Nashville 
University,  and  of  the  Peabody  Education  Fund.  His  mother  was 
daughter  of  Governor  Marcus  Morton  of  Massachusetts. 

Samuel  Watson  was  born  July  11,  1846,  at  Sycamore  Mills, 
Nashville,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Millwood  Institute. 


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He  had  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship  on  the  Senior 
Appointment  list. 

He  was  graduated  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1870,  and 
began  at  once  the  practice  of  law  in  Nashville,  where  he  became 
a  leading  lawyer  and  prominent  citizen. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Tennessee  Senate  in  1881,  serving 
on  the  Judiciary  Committee.     In  1884  he  was  made  Chairman  of 


the  State  Executive  Committee  of  the  Republican  party,  and  held 
that  position  several  years.  In  1886  he  was  candidate,  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  for  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State, 
but  was  defeated  with  the  rest  of  the  ticket.  He  was  for  many 
years  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  University  of  Nashville,  and  at 
times  during  the  absence  of  the  Governor  acted  as  Chairman  of 
the  Board. 

He  died  of  locomotor  ataxia,  October  5,  1903,  at  the  home 
of  his  brother,  William  P.  Watson,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  the 
fifty-eighth  year  of  his  age.  Interment  was  in  Mount  Olivet 
Cemetery,  Nashville.  Three  of  his  classmates,  Berry,  Cooper, 
and  Trimble,  served  as  pallbearers. 


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Watson  had  fine  intellectual  powers,  but  ill-health  had  long- 
kept  him  from  active  work  in  his  profession.  Before  he  lost  his 
health,  the  Cincinnati  Graphic  News  said  of  him: 

"Xo  man  in  the  State  of  Tennessee  is  more  universally  respected,  and 
none  stands  higher  for  official  and  social  integrity.  He  is  known  every- 
where for  his  fair  and  ever  open  dealings  with  his  fellow  citizens,  and  no 
living  man  can  justly  accuse  him  of  anything  unbecoming  an  able,  gen- 
erous and  honest  gentleman.  Mr.  Watson  has  had  several  cases  in  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court,  and  his  arguments  before  that  tribunal 
have  been  most  highly  commended  by  eminent  jurists.'' 


John  Howard  Webster 

Webster  has  completed  and  expects  soon  to  publish  the  genealogy  of  his 
Webster  ancestry,  beginning  with  Thomas  of  Hampton,  N.  H.,  who 
arrived  from  Great  Ormsby,  England,  at  Boston  in  1636  when  eight  years 
old.  His  line  from  him  was  (2)  Thomas,  (3)  Joshua,  (4)  Waldron.  who 
married  a  Dudley,  (5)  Davison,  (6)  John,  his  father.  From  Thomas  (1) 
was  also  the  great  Daniel,  in  the  fourth  generation.  On  his  father's 
side,  among  his  direct  forebears  were  the  Starbuck  and  Coffin  families. 
who  afterward  emigrated  to  Nantucket;  the  Gilman,  Trewaygo  and  Hil- 
ton families,  well-known  in  the  colonial  history  of  Xcw  Hampshire;  and 
Governors    John    Winthrop    and    Thomas    Dudley    of    the    Company    of 


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Massachusetts  Bay.  In  the  study  of  these  families,  the  most  prominent 
and  universal  characteristic  is  found  to  be  the  constant  imprint  of  puri- 
tanic vigor,  sturdiness  and  conservatism. 

Our  classmate  was  the  son  of  John  and  Sara  (Perry)  Webster.  His 
father  was  born  in  Newfield,  York  County,  Maine,  in  1821,  and  died  in 
1S74.  His  mother  was  born  in  1823,  died  in  1852,  and  was  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  (Barker)  Perry  of  Limerick,  Maine,  the  next  village 
to  Newfield. 

John  H.  Webster  was  born  November  8,  1846,  in  Portsmouth, 
\.  II.  The  family  removed  in  1850  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where 
be  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Cleveland  Central  High  School. 
He  was  awarded  prizes  in  Composition  in  Sophomore  year,  was 
one  of  the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition,  and  graduated  with  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship. 

After  graduation  he  read  law  at  Cleveland,  entering  the  Ohio 
State  and  Union  Law  College  as  a  Senior  and  graduating  June 
29,  1870.  In  September,  1870,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
State  and  United  States  Courts. 

From  the  start  Webster  has  been  blessed  with  a  constantly 
increasing  business,  and  he  ranks  among  the  most  successful 
of  the  class  in  his  profession.  He  has  given  his  attention  chiefly 
to  real  estate  law,  and  has  dealt  largely  in  Cleveland  property. 
Politics  he  has  carefully  avoided,  but  he  has  held  many  offices 
of  trust.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Manual  Training 
School  of  Cleveland  and  of  the  University  School  established  in 
that  city. 

In  January,  1884,  he  became  associated  with  E.  A.  Angell  (Har- 
vard 1873)  in  the  practice  of  law,  which  continued  very  profitably 
and  pleasantly  until  Angell's  death  at  sea,  July  4,  1898,  in  the 
awful  wreck  of  the  French  steamship  Burgoync.  At  that  time 
he  had  become  interested  in  an  iron  works  company  in  Cleveland, 
who  were  contractors  in  heavy  iron  and  steel  construction,  and  by 
the  rapid  increase  of  this  business  he  soon  found  his  entire  time 
was  demanded ;  so  he  turned  the  law  practice  over  to  others  and 
has  ever  since  stuck  closely  to  what  is  now  the  Variety  Iron  and 
Steel  Works  Company.  He  has  also  picked  up  a  four  hundred 
acre  farm  within  twenty  miles  of  the  city  limits,  and  has  been 
restoring  its  fertility  for  the  last  twelve  years,  and  getting  fresh 
air  and  good  exercise  as  a  side  profit.  He  also  has  some  office 
building  interests  in  Chicago  and  bank  and  life  insurance  inter- 
ests to  keep  him  thinking  and  fussing  over;  also  the  chief  respon- 


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sibility  for  the  Chamberlin  Cartridge  and  Target  Company,  which 
concern  makes  almost  all  of  the  clay  inanimate  pigeons  or  tar- 
gets that  are  shot  at  all  this  world  over. 

Webster  is  President  and  Treasurer  of  the  Variety  Iron  Works 
Company.  He  is  also  President  of  the  Chamberlin  Cartridge 
and  Target  Company,  a  Director  of  the  Cleveland  National  Bank 
and  of  the  Cleveland  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Union  and  University  Clubs,  and  has  been  Presi- 
dent of  the  Row f ant  Club,  a  group  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  book 
lovers  who  have  a  clubhouse,  which  he  has  helped  to  pay  for  and 
furnish. 

October  18,  1870,  he  was  married  to  Helen  A.  Curtis,  in  Strat- 
ford, Conn.,  and  has  three  children :  Paul  Wentworth,  born 
December  20,  1871 ;  Harold  Curtis,  born  May  20,  1875  J  Jean 
Howard,  born  December  8,   1876. 

Paul  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1893  in  the 
Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  completed  in  1894  a  course  in  Alin- 
ing Engineering  at  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines  at  Golden,  near 
Denver.  He  spent  the  year  1894-95  at  the  German  Government 
School  at  Freiburg.  In  June,  1895,  he  went  from  Freiburg  to 
West  Australia  and  was  engaged  in  engineering  and  mining, 
with  headquarters  at  Coolgardie,  for  two  years,  returning  west- 
ward around  the  world  in  1897.  In  October  of  that  year  he 
located  as  a  mining  engineer  in  Pueblo,  Colo.  He  left  Pueblo 
in  1899,  accepting  the  position  of  night  superintendent  at  the 
Star  Mine,  Rossland,  B.  C.,  where  he  sustained  a  severe  accident 
in  December,  1900,  which  compelled  him  to  give  up  mining*.  In 
1 90 1  he  engaged  in  mechanical  engineering  with  the  Variety  Iron 
Works  Company,  remaining  until  1907,  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Treadwell  Construction  Company  of  Easton,  Pa. 
He  is  now  President  of  the  Lutz  &  Webster  Engineering  Com- 
pany of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  resides.  He  married  Septem- 
ber 7,  1898,  Florence  Fletcher  of  Denver,  Colo.,  and  has  three 
daughters :    Elizabeth,  born  1904,  Dorothy,  1908,  and  Paula,  1910. 

Harold  was  a  student  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  in  the 
Yale  Music  School,  and  in  the  Yale  Law  School.  He  entered 
the  engineering  department  of  the  Variety  Iron  Works  Compan) 
in  1899  and  continued  therein  till  October,  1908.  He  le»ft  engi- 
neering work  in  1908  and  studied  the  violin  for  three  years  at 
Leipsic,  Germany.     He  is  now  established  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


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in  the  latter  profession.  He  was  married  November  15,  1897, 
to  Florence  Glidden,  and  has  one  child,  John,  born  August  14, 
1898. 

Jean  was  a  student  in  Miss  Porter's  School  in  Farmington, 
Conn.,  from  1894  to  1897.  During  the  past  ten  years  she  has 
lived  mostly  in  Berlin  and  Paris,  pursuing  her  musical  studies. 

Webster  was  again  married  on  April  27,  1910,  to  Florence 
Harris  Ives,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Harris  Ives  of  Chicago,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webster  made  a  journey  around  the  world.  Of 
this  journey  he  writes: 

"I  found  time  to  go  around  the  world  on  the  first  trip  of  the  steam- 
ship Cleveland,  taking  in  the  side  trip  across  India,  from  Bombay  to  Cal- 
cutta. At  the  opening  session  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Convention,  at 
Agra,  where  ten  thousand  Pilgrims  lived  in  tents,  I  sat  within  forty  feet 
of  "Bob"  Hume,  while  he  delivered  the  opening  address  of  welcome, 
and  when  it  was  over  he  had  gotten  away  in  the  crowd  before  I  could 
reach  him.  It  seemed  that  he  had  a  pressing  appointment  to  dine  with 
some  distinguished  delegates,  and  the  delay  in  opening  the  meeting  caused 
his  abrupt  leaving.  My  stay  in  Agra  was  only  a  few  hours  on  a  special 
train  of  tourists.  The  meeting  in  the  tent  was  at  6.00  p.  m.,  and  the  light 
very  dim.  I  left  a  brief  greeting  on  my  card  at  his  tent,  and  received 
his  reply  after  my  return  home. 

"I  also  spent  the  first  five  months  of  1911  in  China  and  Japan.  I  was 
in  Kobe  April  8th,  and  there  learned  of  Miss  DeForest  having  left  her 
school  to  return  to  Sendai,  which  is  a  day's  journey  north  from  Yokohama. 
In  the  latter  city,  about  April  20th,  I  learned  through  Japanese  friends, 
for  the  first  time,  of  her  father's  illness,  but  that  it  was  not  considered 
serious.  I  sailed  May  9th  for  home,  and  after  my  return  learned  of  his 
death  at  the  Tokyo  Hospital  on  the  8th.  Had  I  known  of  his  being 
there,  only  forty  minutes'  ride  by  rail  from  Yokohama,  I  certainly  would 
have  tried  to  see  him,  for  I  went  back  and  forth  several  times  from  the 
hotel  in  Yokohama,  eighteen  miles  away. 

"DeForest  was  the  best  known  American  in  Japan,  and  the  most 
beloved  by  all,  from  the  Emperor  down  to  the  peasant.  All  of  the 
educated  men  whom  I  became  acquainted  with  constantly  alluded  to  this, 
and  one  old  acquaintance  of  his  put  him  in  the  same  group  as  Harris, 
Hepburn,  Townsend  and  Brown.  His  memory  will  survive  for  a  very 
long  time  among  those  Japanese  people  who  love  their  country  for  what 
it  really  is,  and  what  has  been  done  for  them  by  those  distinguished 
Americans." 


Gideon  Higgins  Welch 

His  father,  James  M.  Welch,  was  son  of  Bliss  Welch,  a  farmer  of  East 
Hampton,  Conn.     His  mother,  Eliza  M.   (Higgins)   Welch,  was  daughter 


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of    Gideon    Higgins    of    East    Haddam,    Conn.     His    father    removed    to 
Xew  Haven  in  1847,  and  remained  there  nearly  thirty  years. 

Gideon  H.  Welch  was  born  in  East  Haddam,  September  22, 
1844,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Wesleyan  Academy,  YYil- 
braham,  Mass. 

After  graduation,  he  studied  two  years  at  the  Yale  Law  School, 
where  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  July,  1870.  From 
March,  1869,  to  September  of  the  same  year,  he  was  a  student  in 


the  law  office  of  George  H.  Watrous  (Yale  College  1853).  From 
September,  1869,  to  June,  1870,  he  was  City  Clerk  of  New  Haven. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  September,  1870,  and  opened  a  law- 
office  in  Torrington,  where  he  has  enjoyed  an  extensive  prac- 
tice and  has  had  the  emoluments  which  usually  fall  to  the  lot 
of  the   "country  squire." 

He  has  been  Justice  of  the  Peace  thirty-five  years,  Town  Clerk 
and  Attorney  for  the  Town  twenty-two  years,  member  of  the 
Torrington  Board  of  Education  sixteen  years,  Borough  Clerk 
four  years,  member  of  the  Board  of  Wardens  and  Burgesses  of 
the  Borough  of  Torrington  four  years,  Judge  of  the  Borough 
Court  four  years,  and  Judge  of  Probate  ten  years.     During  his 


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residence  of  forty-three  years  in  Torrington  he  has  been  closely 
identified  with  church  work,  and  with  the  business  and  social 
activities  of  the  town.  In  1881  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connect- 
icut House  of  Representatives  and  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
OD  State  Prison,  and  in  1899  he  was  State  Senator  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Incorporations.  September  27,  1897, 
lie  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Litch- 
field County,  and  has  since  been  regularly  elected  by  the  Legis- 
lature on  nomination  of  the  Governor.  His  service  will  terminate 
September  22,  1914,  when  he  will  become  disqualified  by  the  age 
limit.  By  the  General  Assembly  of  1913,  he  was  appointed  a 
State  Referee  for  life  from  September  22,  1914. 

Welch  is  now  a  Director  of  the  Torrington  Water  Company 
and  of  the  Torrington  Electric  Light  Company,  an  Auditor  of  the 
Torrington  Savings  Bank  and  a  Trustee  of  the  Torrington 
Library. 

He  was  married  at  Torrington,  October  8,  1873,  to  Susie  C. 
Agard,  daughter  of  Bradley  R.  and  Mary  (Church)  Agard,  and 
has  a  son : 

Bradley  Agard,  born  May  20,  1880,  graduated  at  Yale  College 
in  1902,  and  now  in  business  in  Philadelphia.  He  was  married 
June  8,  1909,  at  Rochester,  X.  Y.,  to  Fern  Foucher,  daughter 
of  Adolphus  D.  and  Mary  Foucher,  and  has  a  daughter  Suzanne, 
born  January  16,  1912. 


Thomas  Clayton  Welles 

Son  of  John  and  Mary  W.  (Wolcott)  Welles.  His  father  was  son  of 
Joseph  Welles,  a  farmer  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  and  his  mother  was 
(laughter  of  Elisha  Wolcott,  also  a  farmer  of  Wethersfield.  His  ancestral 
line  runs  back  to  Governor  Thomas  Welles  (from  whom  he  was  named), 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Connecticut,  who  was  chosen  one  of  the 
Magistrates  of  the  colony  in  1637,  Deputy  Governor  in  1654,  and  Governor 
in  1655  and  again  in  1658.  Three  of  Welles's  ancestors  were  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War :    Joseph  Welles,  Thomas  Welles,  and  Elisha  Wolcott. 

T.  Clayton  Welles  was  born  in  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  August  7, 
1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary.  In 
college  he  gave  special  attention  to  writing  and  speaking.  He 
received  prizes  in  Debate  and  Declamation,  was  President  of 
Brothers  in  Unity  the  first  term  of  Senior  year,  was  on  the  Edi- 


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torial  Board  of  the  Yale  Courant,  and  was  one  of  the  three  Class 
Historians  on  Presentation  Day. 

In  1868-69  ne  taught  a  select  private  school  in  Prairie  du 
Chien,  Wisconsin.  In  the  summer  of  1870,  he  was  at  the  head 
of  a  large  graded  school  in  Fulton,  N.  Y.  He  studied  three  years 
at  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary  and  was  graduated  in  1872. 

October  25,  1872,  he  was  ordained  by  ecclesiastical  council  to 
the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the  Orthodox  Congregational  Church 


at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he  labored  with  great  success  till  October, 
1879,  when  he  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  Waterloo,  Iowa.  In  March,  1883,  he  became  Principal 
of  Norton  Academy,  Wilton,  Iowa,  and  during  the  year  of  his 
principalship  a  heavy  debt  was  entirely  cleared  off  and  the  insti- 
tution put  on  a  self-sustaining  basis.  He  accepted  a  call  to  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Englewood,  111.,  in  March,  1884. 
In  1885  a  new  church  edifice  was  built,  to  accommodate  the 
increasing  numbers.  Three  hundred  and  fifty  were  added  to  the 
church  in  a  six  years'  pastorate. 

He  closed  his  work  with  the  church  in  Englewood   (now  and 
since  annexation,  the  Pilgrim  Church  of  Chicago)  early  in  1890, 


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and  in  June  of  that  year  sailed  with  his  wife  for  a  year  or  more 
of  foreign  study  and  travel.  After  going  thoroughly  over 
Europe,  they  visited  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land. 

Returning  late  in  the  summer  of  1891,  he  decided  to  locate  in 
New  England  for  the  sake  of  the  education  of  his  daughters 
at  Mount  Holyoke  College,  and  in  January,  1892,  accepted  a  call 
to  the  Winslow  Church  of  Taunton,  Mass.  The  church  there 
felt  the  touch  of  new  life,  secured  the  site  and  adopted  plans  for 
a  new  and  enlarged  edifice  of  stone  which  cost  more  than  sixty 
thousand  dollars.  This  building,  a  model  of  beauty  and  con- 
venience, was  completed  in  1898  and  dedicated  in  1899,  practically 
free  from  debt. 

In  May,  1901,  he  received  an  urgent  call  to  the  Highland  Con- 
gregational Church  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  entered  upon  that  pas- 
torate in  July  of  that  year.  A  divided  church  was  harmonized 
and  many  were  added  to  its  membership  during  the  next  four 
years. 

In  January,  1905,  the  family  doctor  warned  him  that  a  change 
of  climate  was  the  only  hope  of  prolonging  his  wife's  life. 
Accordingly  he  put  in  his  resignation  and  on  the  first  Sunday  of 
February  preached  his  farewell  sermon,  and  on  the  next  day 
left  with  Mrs.  Welles  for  Washington,  D.  C.  The  milder  climate 
helped  the  invalid ;  but  not  daring  to  return  to  New  England  with 
her,  Welles  accepted  a  call  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Edding- 
ton,  Pa.,  a  suburb  of  Philadelphia.  Here  he  became  interested 
in  the  surrounding  settlements  as  well  as  his  own  church,  and 
started  up  two  new  religious  enterprises.  In  191 1  his  wife  died 
and  in  the  same  year  he  was  made  Superintendent  of  Missionary 
Work  and  Church  Extension  in  the  Presbytery  of  Philadelphia 
North,  which  office  he  still  holds,  with  residence  in  Philadelphia, 
at  Torresdale.  He  is  also  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Torresdale  for  the  present,  though  his  duties  as  Superintendent 
seem  likely  soon  to  compel  him  to  relinquish  the  pastorate.  He 
is  in  perfect  health,  young  and  vigorous  as  a  boy,  and  expects  to 
be  at  the  class  reunion  in  June,  1918. 

Welles  was  Registrar  of  Congregational  Churches  for  the  State 
of  Iowa,  1881-84;  President  of  the  Iowa  Home  Missionary 
Society,  1882-84;  on  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Chicago  City 
Missionary  Society,  1887-90;  President  of  the  Taunton  Humane 
Society,    1892-98,    and    Vice-President    of    the    Massachusetts 


288  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Humane  Society  from  1901  till  1905.     In  1897  and  1898  he  was 
chosen  to  report  on  the  work  of  the  churches  before  the  State 
Association  of  Massachusetts  Congregational  Churches. 
He  has  published : 

"Our  Church  Letter,"   monthly,  in  1881  and  1882,  at  Waterloo,  Iowa. 

"The  Reminder,"    weekly,   1887-90,  at  Englewood,  111. 

"A  Series  of  Letters  from  the  Holy  Land,"  1891. 

Also  numerous  sermons,  newspaper  and  magazine  communications. 

He  was  married  (1)  December  4,  1872,  at  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
to  S.  Jennie  Southworth,  who  died  at  Eddington,  Pa.,  Febru- 
ary 1,  1911;  (2)  to  Anna  Priscilla  Lowrie,  October  15,  1913,  at 
Watsontown,  Pa.  He  had  two  children  by  the  first  marriage: 
Grace  Southworth,  born  at  Keokuk,  November  30,  1873 ;  Mary 
Wolcott,  born  at  Waterloo,  October  7,  1879. 

Grace  was  graduated  from  Alt.  Holyoke  College  in  1895,  and 
is  a  teacher  in  the  Miss  Porter  School,  Farmington,  Conn. 

Alary  was  graduated  from  Alt.  Holyoke  in  1900,  and  in  1903 
was  married  to  Rev.  Franklin  Halsted  Clapp.  They  have  two 
sons:  Clayton  Welles,  born  January  11,  1905;  Franklin  Halsted, 
born  December  29,  1906.     Their  home  is  in  Manister,  Mich. 

*Thomas  Fenner  Wentworth 

Son  of  Captain  John  Hanson  and  Judith  Ann  (Pottle)  "Wentworth, 
both  natives  of  New  Hampshire,  where  their  ancestors  had  lived  from 
early  colonial  times. 

Thomas  F.  Wentworth  was  born  September  25,  1845,  in  South 
Berwick,  Maine,  and  was  the  youngest  of  eight  children.  When 
he  was  but  a  year  old,  the  family  removed  to  Greenland,  Rock- 
ingham County,  N.  H.,  from  which  place  he  came  to  Yale,  hav- 
ing been  prepared  at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy.  He  entered  the 
class  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore  year,  was  one  of  the  speak- 
ers at  Junior  Exhibition,  and  graduated  with  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
rank  in  scholarship. 

After  graduation  he  taught  at  the  Lyons  School,  Yonkers. 
N.  Y.,  and  later  was  an  assistant  principal  of  the  Yonkers  Public 
School.  The  second  year  he  spent  in  the  Columbia  College  Law 
School.  In  1870  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  and  opened  an  office 
in  New  York  City,  where  he  practiced  continuously,  except  when 
on  the  Bench,  almost  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.     In  187 1  he 


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united  with  Orrin  Skinner  to  form  the  law  linn  of  Skinner  & 
Wentworth.  A  year  later  William  R.  Foster,  Jr.,  came  into  the 
firm,  which  then  became  Skinner,  Wentworth  &  Foster.  Skinner 
went  out  of  the  firm  in  1876,  Foster  withdrew  soon  after,  and 
Wentworth  continued  practice  without  a  partner  for  several  years. 
Later  the  firm  of  Wentworth,  Lowenstein  &  Stern  was  formed, 
with  offices  at  350  Broadway. 


Wentworth  was  long  prominent  in  Republican  politics  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Republi- 
can Club  of  that  city,  was  Vice-President  in  1884,  and  President 
in  1885  and  1886.  In  the  fall  of  1892  he  was  candidate  for 
State  Senator  on  the  Republican  ticket,  but  was  defeated.  In 
1893  and  1894  he  was  President  of  the  Twenty-first  Assembly 
District  Republican  Association.  In  1894  he  represented  the 
District  in  the  Constitutional  Convention.  July  1,  1895,  he  was 
appointed  by  Mayor  Strong  one  of  the  City  Magistrates  for  a 
term  of  four  years,  and  was  President  of  the  Board  of  Magis- 
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trates  one  year.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  convention  which 
brought  Theodore  Roosevelt  into  political  prominence  by  nomi- 
nating him  for  the  New  York  Assembly. 

For  many  years  he  was  Secretary  and  General  Counsel  for 
the  Buffalo,  Rochester  &  Pittsburg  Railroad,  and  was  counsel 
for  the  Merchants'  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association,  and  for  other 
important  corporations.  His  last  case  of  note  was  his  Referee- 
ship  (1905-06)  in  the  tax  matter  of  the  Medical  Reserve  Insur- 
ance Company  vs.  the  City  of  New  York,  in  which  the  City 
accepted  an  adverse  decision  and  refused  to  appeal. 

"YVentworth  was  Trustee  of  the  House  of  Refuge  and  of  the 
New  York  Dental  College ;  member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  of 
the  University  Club  of  New  York,  of  the  Yale  Alumni  Associa- 
tion, of  the  City  Bar  Association  and  the  Law  Institute,  a  life 
member  of  the  New  England  Society,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
New  York  Association  of  the  Alumni  of  Phillips  Exeter 
Academy,  and  President  of  the  Association  in  1889. 

He  was  married  July  7,  1886,  at  Tarry  town-Heights-on-Hud- 
son,  to  Eleanor  B.  Parsons,  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Tamison 
(Higgins)  Parsons. 

Wentworth  retained  through  life  his  interest  in  the  town  of 
Greenland,  his  boyhood  home,  and  a  few  years  before  his  death 
he  purchased  a  farm  there  for  a  summer  residence.  It  was  while 
inspecting  lumber  on  this  farm  in  January,  1907,  that  he  met  with 
a  serious  accident  which  resulted  in  an  injury  to  his  heart  from 
which  he  never  recovered.  After  an  illness  of  ten  months,  he 
died  at  his  residence,  345  West  85th  Street,  New  York  City,  on 
Monday,  November  11,  1907,  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years. 
Funeral  services  were  held  at  his  home  at  10  a.  m.  on  the  fol- 
lowing Thursday,  Rev.  Dr.  Robert  Collyer,  a  lifelong  friend, 
officiating.     Interment  was  in  Old  Cemetery  at  Greenland. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  dated  January  2$,  1913,  Mr.  H.  E. 
Murphey  of  Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  wrote : 

"I  knew  Judge  Wentworth  intimately,  and  was  with  him  daily  for  weeks 
prior  to  his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  most  patient,  kindly,  and  chari- 
table men  I  have  ever  known.  He  seldom,  if  ever,  sought  favors,  but  was 
continually  showing  them.  To  my  knowledge,  many  young  men  holding 
excellent  positions  in  the  City  of  New  York  to-day  are  beholden  to  him 
for  the  moral  and  financial  support  he  extended  them  at  a  period  when 
most  needed.  I  know  of  men  now  occupying  high  positions  in  official  life 
who  eagerly  sought  his  support  that  they  might  attain  their  objective,  but 


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who  afterwards  denied  him  at  a  critical  time;    but  no  word  of  criticism 
ever  was  heard  from  his  lips." 

Mrs.  Wentworth's  address  is  Greenland,  N.  H. 


^Frederic  Wesson 

Son  of  David  Wesson,  a  well-known  merchant  of  New  York  City,  and 
of  Alice  Goddard  (Howland)  Wesson,  and  brother  of  Charles  H.  Wes- 
son (Yale  College  1863).  The  first  Wesson  came  to  America  in  1642. 
Colonel  James  Wesson  commanded  the  Ninth  Massachusetts  Infantry  in 
the  Revolutionary  War  and  was  wounded  seven  times.  He  died  October 
15,  1809.  Alice  Goddard  Howland  was  a  direct  descendant  of  John 
Howland,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  Mayflower. 

Frederic  Wesson  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  2.7, 
1845,  was  prepared  for  college  with  J.  C.  Overhiser  of  Brooklyn, 
was  a  member  of  '67  one  term,  and  of  '68  till  the  end  of  Sopho- 
more year. 

He  studied  law  at  the  Columbia  College  Law  School,  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1870  and  practiced  for  about  two  years 


292  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

in  New  York  City,  being  for  a  time  in  Air.  Choate's  office  and 
later  with  his  brother,  Charles  H.  Wesson.  After  the  death  of 
his  brother  in  1873,  he  withdrew  from  the  law  and  became  in 
1875  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hoadley  &  Company,  bankers  and 
commission  merchants,  who  were  largely  interested  in  South 
American  trade. 

While  engaged  in  business  he  found  time  to  acquire  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  Spanish  and  French  and  a  fair  acquaintance  with 
the  literature  of  both  languages.  He  also  wrote  for  publica- 
tion articles  on  free  trade  and  on  questions  of  political  economy, 
and  several  reviews  of  books  upon  these  subjects.  In  recogni- 
tion of  these  studies,  Yale  College  gave  him  in  1888  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Arts,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  '68. 

In  January,  1893,  ne  retired  from  the  firm  of  Hoadley  &  Com- 
pany, having  been  requested  by  the  Legislature  of  Jamaica  to 
undertake  the  completion  of  a  railroad  across  the  island,  of  which 
only  thirty  miles  had  been  finished.  He  accepted  the  offer  and 
spent  ten  years,  devoting  his  entire  time,  and  his  health,  to 
financing  and  building  the  road.  A  company  was  formed,  called 
the  West  India  Improvement  Company,  of  which  he  was  Presi- 
dent. The  road  was  finished  and  turned  over  to  the  English  Gov- 
ernment of  the  Island.  This  railway  extended  the  entire  length  of 
the  Island  and  gave  the  Colony  complete  railway  facilities.  From 
1890  to  1898  he  spent  about  six  months  of  each  year  in  Jamaica, 
and  the  remaining  time  in  London  and  France.  From  1898  till 
his  death  he  resided  in  Brooklyn.  X.  Y. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  of  the  Downtown 
Association  of  Manhattan ;  and  of  the  Hamilton,  Barnard,  and 
Dykes  Meadow  clubs  of  Brooklyn. 

He  was  married  at  the  Chapel  Royal,  Savoy,  London,  August 
13,  1878,  to  Airs.  Lilias  Jeannie  Mills,  eldest  daughter  of  Rt. 
Rev.  Abraham  X.  Littlejohn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Bishop  of  Long 
Island,  and  had  a  daughter,  Alice  Frederieka,  born  in  Brookl 
October  16,  1886. 

Alice  Frederieka  Wesson  passed  much  of  her  childhtxxl  in 
Europe  and  in  Jamaica;  later  she  attended  St.  Mary's  School 
at  Garden  City,  Long  Island.  She  was  married  December  31, 
1907,  in  New  York,  to  Stewart  Fade  Barber,  Paymaster,  U.  S.  N., 
witli  rank  of  Lieutenant  Commander,  now  stationed  at  United 
States    Naval    Station,    Guantanamo   Bay,    Cuba.      A    daughter, 


: 


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Frederieka  Wesson  Barber,  was  born  August  13,  191 1,  at  Chevy 
Chase,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Frederic  Wesson  died  in  his  sleep,  of  heart  failure,  at  his  home 
in  Brooklyn,  November  30,  1904,  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  years. 

Mrs.  Wesson's  address  is  care  F.  P.  Bellamy,  Esq.,  204  Mon- 
tague Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Samuel  Wheeler 

Son  of  Nathaniel  and  Huldah  Ruth  (Bradley)  Wheeler.  Nathaniel 
Wheeler  was  descended  from  Moses  Wheeler,  who  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nal members  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  and  was  among  the  first  to  whom 
land  was  allotted  in  New  Haven.  He  removed  from  New  Haven  to  Strat- 
ford, where  he  died  in  1698,  at  the  age  of  one  hundred  years,  the  first 
of  the  immigrants  who  is  known  to  have  lived  a  full  century.  General 
Wooster  of  the  Revolutionary  Army  and  General  Joseph  Wheeler  of  the 
Confederate  Army  were  among  his  descendants.  Moses  Wheeler's  wife 
was  the  sister  of  Joseph  Hawley,  ancestor  of  Joseph  Hawley,  Governor 
of  Connecticut.  Huldah  Ruth  Bradley  was  descended  from  William 
Bradley,  also  a  member  of  the  original  New  Haven  Colony.  He  was  the 
ancestor  of  the  New  Haven  Bradleys. 

Samuel  Wheeler  was  born  in  Watertown,  Conn.,  September 
16,  1845.  He  entered  college  from  Bridgeport,  having  been 
prepared  privately  by  James  M.  B.  Dwight  of  New  Haven. 


294  THE  CLASS  OF  lS68,  YALE  COLLEGE 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Farrar  &  Wheeler.  He  was  married  at  Chi- 
cago, May  17,  1876,  to  Amelia  Vernon  Rumsey,  and  had  by  this 
marriage  one  child,  Amelia  Rumsey,  born  March  31,  1877.  Mrs. 
Wheeler  died  at  Chicago  on  May  23,  of  the  same  year.  This 
affliction  led  him  to  withdraw  from  business,  and  he  spent  this 
year  and  the  next  in  Europe.  After  his  return,  he  engaged  again 
in  business  in  Chicago.  In  1894  he  removed  to  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
and  became  President  of  the  Wheeler  &  Wilson  Company,  which 
position  he  held  till  1905,  when  he  retired  from  active  business. 
His  home  has  been  for  many  years  and  is  now  in  Fairfield,  Conn. 

He  was  again  married,  June  18,  1884,  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis., 
to  Elizabeth  Theodora  Rumsey,  and  has  by  this  marriage  three 
children:  Theodora,  born  July  29,  1889;  Nathaniel,  born  Jan- 
uary 30,  1891 ;   Ellen  Rumsey,  born  February  24,  1893. 

Theodora  was  graduated  from  Vassar  College  in  191 1,  and  is 
now  a  student  in  the  Medical  College  of  Johns  Hopkins 
University. 

Nathaniel  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  1914  in  Yale  College. 

Ellen  Rumsey  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of  191 5  in  Vassar 
College. 

Henry  Shaler  Williams 

Son  of  Hon.  Josiah  B.  and  Mary  (Hardy)  Williams.  His  ancestry 
has  been  traced  back  six  generations  in  the  direct  male  line,  to  one 
Thomas  Williams,  who  died  in  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  in  1692.  The  inter- 
mediate members  of  his  line  lived  in  central  Connecticut  until  about 
1830,  when  his  father,  Josiah  Butler  Williams,  moved  with  his  older 
brothers  into  central  western  New  York,  in  the  Cayuga  Lake  valley,  where 
they  built  up  a  lumber  business  and  trading  storehouse,  with  a  line  of 
canal  boats  running  to  New  York  and  as  far  east  as  New  Haven.  After 
successful  business  developments,  his  father  later  started  a  banking  house 
in  Ithaca,  of  which  he  was  President  for  many  years  and  which  was 
merged  into  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ithaca,  under  the  national  bank- 
ing system.  He  was  State  Senator  for  several  terms  and  was  member  of 
the  Committee  which  revised  the  banking  laws  of  the  State.  He  was  a 
Republican,  a  temperance  man,  and  one  of  the  original  Trustees  of 
Cornell  University. 

Henry  S.  Williams  was  born  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  March  6,  1S47. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Ithaca  Academy.  During  the 
last  two  years  of  his  course  he  studied  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific 
School,  and  received  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  in  1868. 


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After  graduation  he  was  assistant  to  the  Professor  in  Palseon- 
tology,  and  student  in  the  Graduate  Department  at  Yale,  where 
he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1871.  In  February,  187J,  he 
went  to  Kentucky  University  to  take  the  place  of  the  Professor 
of  Natural  History.  After  his  return,  lie  was  for  a  time  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother  in  the  manufacture  of  agricultural  imple- 
ments at  Ithaca,  but  gave  more  attention  to  his  studies  in 
comparative  anatomy  than  to  business. 


In  the  fall  of  1879  he  was  elected  Assistant  Professor  of 
Palaeontology  at  Cornell  University.  In  1886  he  was  Secretary 
of  the  Faculty,  and  in  1887  and  1888  was  Dean  of  the  Uni- 
versity. In  1886  he  was  made  Professor  of  Geology  and  Palae- 
ontology, which  position  he  held  up  to  the  year  1892.  He  was 
appointed  Silliman  Professor  of  Geology  in  Yale  College  in  1892, 
and  held  this  professorship  for  twelve  years,  resigning  it  in  1904 
to  accept  the  professorship  of  geology  at  Cornell  as  Head  of  the 
Department  of  Geology.  On  joining  the  Cornell  Faculty  in  1904, 
he  arranged  to  devote  only  half  time  to  the  University  wrork,  so 
that  he  might  engage  in  research  work.  He  has  therefore  been 
able  to  give  his  attention  mainly  to  investigation  and  writing  on 


296  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

palseontological  and  other  geological  themes.  In  19 12,  having 
reached  the  age  of  sixty-five,  he  was  retired  as  Emeritus  Pro- 
fessor of  Geology. 

In  1885  he  attended,  as  a  Delegate,  the  International  Congress 
of  Geologists  in  Berlin.  He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  London,  and  has  for  several  years  been  officially  connected 
with  the  United  States  Geological  Survey.  In  1891  he  was  Sec- 
retary of  the  organizing  committee,  and  then  one  of  the  general 
secretaries  of  the  American  session  of  the  International  Con- 
gress of  Geologists  held  at  Washington.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders,  and  until  1891  treasurer,  and  since  then  councilor  of 
the  Geological  Society  of  America.  In  the  year  1891-92  he  was 
President  of  Section  E  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science. 

He  has  been  Associate  Editor  of  The  Geological  Journal  (Chi- 
cago) since  its  foundation  in  1893,  and  Associate  Editor  of  The 
American  Journal  of  Science  since  May,  1894. 

His  published  papers  number  more  than  one  hundred,  among 
which  are  the  following: 

Comparison  of  the  muscles  of  the  Chelonian  and  human  shoulder 
girdle.     Trans.  Conn.  Acad.,  Vol.  II,  pt.  II,  pp.  301-307,  pis.  12-13.     l$73- 

The  life  history  of  Spirifer  Lccvis,  Hall;  a  palseontological  study. 
(Read  Apr.  25.)     Annals  N.  Y.  Acad.  Set.,  Vol.  II,  pp.  1-21,  14  pis.     1881. 

Geographical  and  physical  conditions  as  modifying  Fossil  Faunas.  The 
paper  of  which  this  is  an  abstract  was  read  before  the  Amer.  Assoc.  Adv. 
Sci.,  Sept.,  1884.  Important  statements  arose  in  the  discussion  following 
this  paper  between  Professor  James  Hall  and  the  author  which  appeared 
in:  Science,  Vol.  X,  p.  327,  Philadelphia  Press,  Sept.  12.  Ithaca  Daily 
Jour..  Sept.  15,  Albany  Argus,  Sept.  20,  and  Oct.  5.  Science,  Vol.  VI,  p. 
326.     1884. 

The  ideal  modern  scholarship.  The  presidential  address  delivered  at 
the  inauguration  of  the  Alpha  chapter  of  the  Sigma  Xi  society,  Cornell 
University,  Ithaca,  June  15.     Ithaca,  8°,  pp.  1-8.     1887. 

On  the  Fossil  Faunas  of  the  upper  Devonian — the  Genesee  section.  \\-w 
York.  Bull.  U.  S.  Geol.  Surv.,  No.  41,  pp.  1-123.  Vol.  VI,  pp.  481-603. 
1888. 

The  Devonian  and  Carboniferous  formations  of  North  America.  First 
of  series  of  correlation  papers.  Bull.  U.  S.  Geol  S%rv.t  No.  80,  pp.  1-279. 
1891. 

The  scope  of  Palaeontology  and  its  value  to  Geologists.  (Address 
before  Sect.  E.  Amer.  Assoc.  Adv.  Sci.,  Aug.  17.)  Amer.  Geol,  Vol. 
X,  pp.  148-169.     1892. 


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Geology  as  a  part  of  a  College  curriculum.  Jour.  Geol.,  Chicago,  Vol. 
I,  No.  1,  pp.  38-46.    1892. 

The  effect  of  scientific  study  upon  religious  beliefs.  Century,  Vol.  XLV, 
pp.  273-278.     Dec,  1892. 

Geological  Biology,  an  introduction  to  the  geological  history  of  organ- 
isms,   pp.  i-xx,  1-395.  fig-  1-120.     Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  1895. 

Four  Years  for  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School.  An  address  delivered 
before  Society  of  Sigma  Xi,  March  27,  1897.  Published  in  Alumni 
Weekly,  April,   1897. 

( )n  the  Theory  of  Organic  Variation.  Address  delivered  before  Phil- 
osophical Club,  Yale  College,  Apr.  1,  1897.  Published  in  Science,  July 
16,  1897,  Vol.  VI,  p.  73- 

On  the  Fossil  Faunas  of  the  St.  Helens  breccias.  Canada  Roy.  Soc. 
Proc.  and  Trans.,  3d  Ser.,  Vol.  Ill,  Sec.  4,  pp.  205-247  and  4  plates.     1910. 

Persistence  of  Fluctuating  Variations  as  illustrated  by  the  fossil  genus 
Khipidomella.     Geol.  Soc.  Am.  Bull.,  XXI,  No.  2,  pp.  295-312.     1910. 

Some  new  Mollusca  from  the  Silurian  formations  of  Washington 
County,  Maine.  Proc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  Vol.  XLII,  pp.  381-398  and  2 
plates.     1912. 

New  species  of  Silurian  fossils  from  the  Edmunds  and  Pembroke  for- 
mations of  Washington  County,  Maine.  Proc.  U.  S.  Nat.  Mus.,  Vol.  XLV, 
PP.  319-352,  and  3  plates.     1913- 

Recurrent  Tropidoleptus  Zones  of  the  Upper  Devonian  in  New  York. 
Professional   Paper  No.   79,    U.   S.   Geol.   Surv.,  pp.    1-103   and  6  plates. 

1913. 

(H.  S.  W.  and  others.)  Watkins  Glen — Catatonk  Folio,  New  York 
(by  H.  S.  Williams,  R.  S.  Tarr,  and  E.  M.  Kindle).  U.  S.  Geol.  Surv. 
Atlas  of  the  U.  S.,  No.  169,  1909.  Also  issued  in  octavo  form,  called 
"Field  Edition,"   pp.  242. 

He  was  married  to  Hattie  H.  Wilcox,  October  18,  1871,  in 
New  Haven,  and  has  four  children:  Charlotte  Wilcox,  born 
November  16,  1872;  Roger  Henry,  born  July  27,  1874;  Arthur 
Shaler,  born  August  19,  1880;  Edith  Clifford,  born  April  17, 
1885. 

Roger  Henry  was  graduated  as  Bachelor  of  Philosophy  at  Cor- 
nell in  1895,  and  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  at  Yale 
in  1903.  November  18,  1901,  he  was  married  to  Frances  Cole- 
man, and  has  two  children:  Coleman,  born  October  18,  1903, 
and  Gordon,  born  July  19,  1908.  He  is  Treasurer  of  the  Crane 
Valve  Company  of  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Arthur  Shaler  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  from 
Yale  in  1901,  and  of  Mechanical  Engineer  from  Cornell  in  1904. 
He  spent  three  years  in  the  service  of  J.  G.  White  &  Company, 


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contracting  engineers,  in  the  Philippines,  where  he  gained  a  good 
knowledge  of  the  Spanish  language  and  an  experience  in  manag- 
ing laborers.  In  1908  he  purchased  a  tobacco  plantation  in  the 
province  of  Havana,  Cuba,  which  he  has  since  enlarged,  and 
organized  into  an  incorporated  stock  company. 


Roger  Butler  Williams 

Son  of  Hon.  Josiah  B.  and  Mary  (Hardy)  Williams,  and  brother  o( 
Henry  Shaler  Williams,  who  entered  Yale  College  with  the  Class  of  ?68. 
took  studies  in  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  during  Junior  and  Senior 
year  and  graduated  with  us,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.B. 

Roger  B.  Williams  was  born  in  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  May  8,  1848, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Ithaca  Academy.  He  maintained 
a  uniformly  good  rank  in  scholarship  throughout  the  four  year-. 
was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  and  was  one  of  the  speakers 
at  Commencement. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  returned  to  Ithaca,  and  became  cashier 
of  the  Merchants  and  Farmers'  National  Bank  in  that  place.  In 
September,  1872,  he  united  with  his  brothers  H.  S.  and  Georgt 


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R.  Williams,  and  organized  the  firm  of  Williams  Brothers,  iron 
work  manufacturers.  His  brother,  H.  S.  Williams,  withdrew 
from  the  firm  in  1879  to  ta^e  a  position  in  Cornell  University, 
and  in  1883  George  R.  Williams  also  withdrew.  Since  that  date 
Roger  B.  Williams  has  conducted  the  business  alone,  retaining 
the  firm  name  of  Williams  Brothers. 

Williams  has  been  President  of  the  Ithaca  Savings  Bank  since 
Juno,  1886,  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  City 
of  Ithaca  since  1890.  He  is  also  President  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Ithaca  and  of  the  Cornell  Library  Association,  and  is 
one  of  the  Trustees,  and  also  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee 
of  Cornell  University.  He  has  served  on  the  Board  of  Managers 
of  the  New  York  State  Industrial  School  at  Rochester,  and  of 
the  Willard  Asylum  at  Ovid,  N.  Y.,  and  has  been  a  Trustee  of 
the  Ithaca  Hospital  Association  and  a  member  of  several  local 
municipal  commissions  and  business  organizations. 

He  was  married  November  2,  1870,  to  Ida  Harris,  at  Ithaca, 
and  had  by  this  marriage  a  daughter:  Pauline  Harris,  born 
September  21,  1871. 

Airs.  Williams  died  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  New  York, 
March  8,  1873,  in  the  twenty-sixth  year  of  her  age. 

He  was  married  again  to  Carrie  L.  Romer,  December  17,  1874, 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  By  this  marriage  he  has  had  two  children : 
Juliet  Romer,  born  October  25,  1875,  died  August  24,  1876. 
Roger  Butler,  Jr.,  born  December  29,  1879,  was  married 
October  4,  1904,  to  Louise  Miller  of  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  and  has 
two  sons:  Roger  Butler  Williams,  3d,  born  March  31,  1907; 
Henry  M.  Williams,  born  April  16,  191 1;  and  one  daughter, 
Georgie  C.  Williams,  born  August  29,  1912. 


*Thomas  Hanse  Williams 

Son  of  William  and  Annice  (Tooke)  Williams,  was  born  near 
Salisbury,  Md.,  April  4,  1845.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at 
Salisbury  Academy,  and  joined  the  class  in  September,  1865. 

After  leaving  college,  he  had  charge  of  the  Laurel  Classical 
Institute,  Laurel,  Del.,  till  the  summer  of  187 1,  when  he  was 
called  to  Salisbury  Academy,  the  institution  at  which  he  was 
prepared  for  college.  This  school  he  took  charge  of  in  Septem- 
ber, 1871.     In  1872  the  academy  came  under  the  control  of  the 


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County  Public  School  Board,  which  converted  it  into  a  county 
high  school,  and  Williams  was  appointed  Principal,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  till  1880,  when,  feeling  the  need  of  rest,  he  resigned 
and  gave  his  attention  to  fruit-growing  upon  his  farm  near  Salis- 
bury. In  1886,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  County  School 
Board,  he  went  back  to  his  old  position  of  Principal  of  the  Salis- 


bury   High    School, 
hundred  students. 


having   under   his    supervision   about    four 


He  was  a  Republican  and  was  deeply  interested  in  local  and 
state  politics.  From  1895  to  1898  he  was  Chief  Clerk  in  the 
office  of  the  Comptroller  of  the  State  of  Maryland.  In  1898  he 
resigned,  to  accept  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  Public 
Schools  for  Wicomico,  which  office  he  held  for  four  years.  He 
was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Salisbury. 
and  during  a  part  of  the  time  its  Clerk.  After  the  disastrous 
conflagration  in  Salisbury  in  1886,  he  served  also  as  a  member 
of  the  Commission  which  put  into  effect  the  new  city  charter 
He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Salisbury  Building 
Loan  and  Banking  Association,  was  Director  from  its  organiza- 
tion in  1886  till  his  death,  and  for  the  last  five  years  had  been 
Secretary  of  the  Association. 


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Air.  Williams  was  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Salisbury,  being  a  class  leader  and 
a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school.  He  was  Steward,  Trustee  and 
Treasurer  of  the  church,  and  a  lay  conference  Steward  of  the 
Wilmington  Methodist  Episcopal  Conference. 

September  23,  1873,  ne  was  married  at  Vienna,  Md.,  to  Eliza- 
beth E.  Smithers  of  Smyrna,  Del. 

Mr.  Williams  died  suddenly,  August  29,  1912,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-seven  years.  Funeral  services  were  held  at  his  residence 
the  following  Monday.  Interment  was  in  Parsons  Cemetery  at 
Salisbury. 

*John  Howard  Wilson 

Son  of  Deacon  John  Overing  Wilson,  who  was  born  May  31,  1821,  and 
died  April.  1906,  and  of  Mary  (Morse)  Wilson,  who  was  born  August  23, 
1820,  and  died  August  23,  1913.  His  father,  Deacon  Wilson,  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Natick  Savings  Bank  and  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
House  of  Representatives.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  vil- 
lage debating  society,  in  which  were  such  men  as  Judge  Bacon,  Judge 
Morse,  and  Henry  Wilson,  afterwards  Vice  President  of  the  United 
States.  Both  parents  of  our  classmate  filled  positions  of  influence  and 
trust  in  the  town  and  church.  In  their  home,  religion,  honor  and  recti- 
tude were  the  indwelling  spirit ;  and  industry  and  frugality,  combined 
with  good  cheer,  humor  and  hospitality,  rendered  it  an  attractive  center 
for  relatives  and  friends.  The  lecturers  and  the  supplying  ministers  were 
usually  entertained  at  Deacon  Wilson's  house. 

John  H.  Wilson  was  born  in  Natick,  Mass.,  March  9,  1847,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  by  Abner  Rice  of  that  place.  He  had 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Junior  Promenade  Committee. 

After  graduation  he  taught  a  year  at  Easton,  Conn.,  and  the 
following  year  began  the  study  of  law  with  his  uncle,  Joseph 
Warren  Wilson  (Yale  College  1854),  in  Xorwalk,  Conn.  He  then 
taught  for  a  short  time  at  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  and  meanwhile  con- 
tinued his  law  studies  with  Henry  A.  Bogert  (Columbia  1846). 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1872  and  began  practicing  in  New 
York  City,  being  associated  with  Mr.  Bogert  and  having  charge 
of  the  court  practice.  After  removing  from  Flushing  he  resided 
in  Brooklyn,  and  later  in  New  York  City.  In  1881  he  became 
a  permanent  resident  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 


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He  was  for  many  years  prominent  in  Republican  politics.  He 
was  Vice-President  of  the  Town  Republican  Club,  and  Chairman 
of  the  Montclair  branch  of  the  County  Republican  Committee. 
In  the  Presidential  canvass  of  1888  he  took  an  active  part  on  the 
Republican  side.  In  1889  he  was  elected  Chairman  of  the  Town- 
ship Committee  of  Montclair  and  was  reelected  for  four  consecu- 
tive years.  He  took  an  advanced  position  in  the  affairs  of  the 
township,  and  at  an  important  meeting  strongly  advocated  the 


incorporation  of  Montclair  as  a  town.  After  the  town  was  incor- 
porated, he  was  elected  the  first  Chairman  of  the  Town  Council. 
This  position  was  equivalent  to  that  of  Mayor  in  a  city.  It  was 
through  his  efforts  that  the  sewerage  system  and  many  other 
modern  improvements  in  Montclair  were  introduced.  He  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention  in  1892  at  Minne- 
apolis, and  helped  to  re-nominate  Benjamin  Harrison. 

Wilson  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  an 
a  Director  of  the  Montclair  Club. 

He  was  married  at  Brooklyn,  May  22,  1877,  to  Carolyn  Ives 
Dawson,  daughter  of  William  Holt  and  Martha  (Wilmot)  Daw- 
son of  Westville,  Conn. 


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Though  he  had  met  with  financial  losses  which  seriously  affected 
his  health  for  four  years,  he  bravely  continued  his  law  practice 
till  two  months  before  his  decease.  On  December  7,  1905,  he  was 
suddenly  attacked  with  a  paralysis  of  the  left  side.  On  the  23d 
of  the  month  he  was  removed  to  the  home  of  his  father  in  Natick, 
Mass.,  where  he  died  of  heart  failure,  February  2,  1906. 

Mrs.  Carolyn  D.  Wilson  resides  at  343  Belleville  Avenue, 
Bloomfield,  N.  J. 


*  James  Henry  Wood 


Son  of  Charles  Wood,  a  manufacturer  of  silverware,  and  of  Elizabeth 
(Morris)   Wood. 


James  H.  Wood  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  21, 
1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Peekskill  Academy. 

He  was  graduated  at  Columbia  College  Law  School  in  May, 
1870,  and  began  practice  in  New  York  City.  He  was  well 
equipped  for  a  practitioner  and  was  considered  one  of  the  most 
promising  young  attorneys  in  the  city.  Within  two  years  he 
was  Managing  Clerk  of  a  large  law  firm,  and  Walter  S.  Carter 


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offered  him  a  partnership.  Wood  asked  permission  to  introduce 
a  classmate  of  his  in  the  Columbia  Law  School,  named  Orrin 
Skinner,  a  man  recognized  as  the  ablest  man  in  his  class  and  its 
valedictorian.  The  result  was  the  firm  of  Carter,  Skinner  & 
Wood,  organized  in  1873  but  terminated  in  a  year,  Skinner  hav- 
ing proved  himself  a  scoundrel.  When  he  withdrew,  Wood  went 
with  him  and  they  became  partners  but  the  partnership  did  not 
long  continue.  Wood  was  for  a  time  clerk  in  the  office  of  Shear- 
man &  Sterling,  and  was  for  several  years  in  practice  alone.  He 
was  later  employed  by  the  Hubbell  Legal  Directory  Company 
and  by  the  Westinghouse  Electric  Company.  During  the  last 
ten  years  of  his  life,  by  reason  of  failing  health,  he  was  without 
steady  employment. 

April  26,  1877,  he  was  married  in  Xew  York  City  to  Augusta 
E.  Dodge,  daughter  of  Judge  William  Dodge,  and  had  three 
children:  Morris  Dodge,  born  February  12,  1878;  Lylian 
Augusta,  born  July  19,  1879;  William  Henry,  born  October  13, 
1885;    all  in  New  York  City. 

Morris  D.  Wood  was  married  April  20,  1907,  to  lone  Billing, 
at  Chicago,  111.  He  is  salesman  for  the  Dean  Electric  Company 
of  Elyria,  Ohio,  and  resides  at  904  Niel  Avenue,  Columbus. 

Lylian  A.  Wood  became  an  expert  stenographer,  and  is  private 
secretary  to  Air.  H.  D.  Walbridge  of  the  firm  of  H.  D.  Walbridge 
&  Co.,  bankers,  7  Wall  Street,  Xew  York  City. 

William  H.  Wood  is  in  the  employ  of  the  Hatters'  Fur 
Exchange,  2^  Washington  Place,  Xew  York  City.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  October,  191 2,  to  Eva  J.  Roberts  of  Portland,  Maine, 
and  has  a  son,  William  Roberts,  born  November  7,  1913. 

James  Henry  Wood  died  of  consumption  at  St.  Francis  Hos- 
pital, Xew  York  City,  March  2^,  1901,  in  the  fifty-third  year  of 
his  age. 

Mrs.  Wood  resides  with  her  daughter  Lylian  at  81  Miller 
Avenue,  Freeport,  Long  Island. 


*William  Curtis  Wood 

Son  of  William  C.  and  Lucy  M.  (Lawrence)  Wood,  missionaries  of  the 
American  Board,  stationed  at  Mahabaleshwar,  India,  a  health  resort  about 
thirty  miles  from  Satara. 


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William  C.  Wood,  our  classmate,  was  born  at  Mahabaleshwar, 
April  20,  1849.  At  an  early  age  he  came  to  this  country  and 
took  up  his  residence  with  his  grandparents  at  Groton,  Mass., 
where  he  fitted  for  college.  He  came  to  Yale,  the  youngest 
man  in  his  class,  with  no  expectation  of  taking  high  honors.  It 
soon  became  evident,  however,  that  he  was  to  be  one  of  the 
marked  men  of  the  class.  He  was  awarded  prizes  in  Mathe- 
matics, Composition  and  Debate,  gave  the  Greek  Oration  at  Jun- 


ior Exhibition,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Junior  Promenade 
Committee.  He  took  the  Woolsey  Scholarship  in  Freshman  year, 
led  the  class  in  Sophomore  year,  and  graduated  as  Salutatorian 
with  a  rank  higher  than  that  of  the  valedictorian  in  any  preceding 
class. 

The  year  after  graduation  he  taught  in  the  Hopkins  Grammar 
School.  Teaching  put  a  heavy  tax  upon  his  sensitive,  nervous 
organization,  and  aggravated  a  trouble  of  the  heart,  which  first 
showed  itself  in  his  boyhood.  In  the  fall  of  1869  he  was  elected 
to  a  tutorship  in  the  college.  He  filled  the  place  with  conspicu- 
ous dignity  for  several  months,  but  was  compelled  to  resign 
owing  to  ill  health.     Some  months  later  he  went  West,  where  he 


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remained  for  a  time  with  relatives  and  recruited  his  strength  to 
a  limited  degree.  In  187 1  he  returned  to  New  Haven,  where 
he  continued  to  reside  until  his  death.  Here  he  gave  private 
instruction,  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  philosophy  and  sci- 
ence, and  later  prepared  himself  for  a  position  in  the  Patent 
Office,  to  which  he  had  been  appointed  through  President 
Woolsey. 

He  died  at  the  Tremont  House,  New  Haven,  July  15,  1875, 
at  the  early  age  of  twenty-six.  He  was  buried  in  the  College 
lot  in  the  old  cemetery  in  New  Haven,  and  a  chaste  marble  monu- 
ment, erected  by  his  classmate,  Douglass  Walcott,  marks  his 
resting  place. 


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*  Enoch  Day  Woodbridge 

Eldest  son  of  Hon.  Frederick  E.  Woodbridge  (University  of  Vermont 
1841),  and  of  Mary  P.  (Halsey)  Woodbridge. 

Enoch  D.  Woodbridge  was  born  in  Vergennes,  Vt.,  July  29, 
1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Episcopal  Institute, 
Burlington. 

After  leaving  college  he  was  a  student  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  1872.     He  served  in  the  hospitals  of  New  York  City  for  four 


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years.  In  1875  he  was  House  Surgeon  of  the  Fourth  Division 
of  Bellevue  Hospital.  He  returned  to  Vergennes  in  1876,  and 
was  associated  with  his  father  in  the  practice  of  medicine  till  his 
death,  which  occurred  January  4,  1887,  in  the  thirty-ninth  year  of 
his  age. 


Henry  Collins  Woodruff 

Son  of  Albert  and  Harriet  (Partridge)  Woodruff,  is  a  descendant  on 
his  father's  side  of  William  Bradford,  and  on  his  mother's  side  of  John 
Cotton.  His  great-grandfather  on  his  mother's  side  was  Joseph  Lyman, 
the  second  President  of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions.  Albert  Woodruff  was  a  well-known  Sunday  school 
organizer.  He  began  a  Sunday  school  under  a  tree  in  Brooklyn,  on  the 
street  corner.  This  grew  to  be  a  large  and  flourishing  school,  and  became 
the  Warren  Street  Mission.  Later  it  was  adopted  as  Pilgrim  Chapel 
by  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  Foreign 
Sunday  School  Association. 


Henry  C.  Woodruff  was  horn  in  Brooklyn,  X.  Y.,  February 
16,  1845,  and  entered  Williston  Seminary  at  the  age  of  fourteen. 
Soon  after  the  middle  of  Senior  year  the  condition  of  his  eyes 
compelled  him  to  give  up  study,  and  he  spent  about  a  year  between 
working  on  a  farm  and  clerking  in  a  store.     Later  he  completed 


308  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

his  preparation  for  Yale  and  passed  his  examinations  with  the 
Class  of  '66.  During  the  greater  part  of  the  next  two  years 
he  was  abroad  with  his  family.  In  September,  1864,  he  entered 
Yale  with  the  Class  of  '68. 

He  had  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  in  scholarship,  and  was  one  of 
the  speakers  at  Junior  Exhibition. 

During  the  first  year  after  graduation,  he  was  a  student  at 
Union  Theological  Seminary.  The  two  following  years  were 
spent  at  the  Seminary  at  Andover,  where  he  completed  his  course 
of  theological  study  in  1871.  His  first  parish  was  at  Northport, 
Suffolk  County,  N.  Y.  Here  he  remained  between  eight  and  nine 
years.  October  13,  1881,  he  was  settled  as  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Black  Rock,  Conn.,  where  he  has  remained 
for  over  thirty-two  years. 

His  time  and  energy  have  been  divided  between  his  pastorate 
and  his  duties  as  a  member  of  the  Foreign  Sunday  School  Asso- 
ciation. His  father  had  always  been  a  great  believer  in  Sun- 
day schools  as  a  method  of  lay-cooperation  in  religious  work, 
and  became  convinced  that  the  institution  was  capable  of  wide- 
spread beneficial  results  upon  the  continent  of  Europe  and  else- 
where, where  it  was  almost  an  exotic  and  comparatively  unknown. 
In  1863  he  retired  from  business  and  devoted  the  remainder  of 
his  life  largely  to  this  work.  This  led  to  the  organization  of  the 
Foreign  Sunday  School  Association,  which  was  prominent  among 
the  pioneers  of  Sunday  school  work  abroad.  It  is  interesting  to 
note  that  some  of  the  principal  methods  by  which  the  work  has 
been  since  extended  were  anticipated  by  Air.  Woodruff.  The 
almost  world-wide  correspondence  by  which  it  was  carried  on  by 
him  seems  to  have  been  an  anticipation  of  the  correspondence 
school  and  its  methods  and  of  the  present  World's  Sunday  school 
movement.  Upon  the  decease  of  his  father,  our  classmate  suc- 
ceeded him  in  the  presidency  of  the  Association,  to  whose  man- 
agement he  has  devoted  what  leisure  has  been  afforded  by  a 
rather  small  parish.  It  has  been  a  voluntary  work,  but  inter- 
esting and  of  widespread  usefulness. 

In  the  autumn  of  1913,  he  visited  Berlin,  upon  invitation,  to 
attend  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  inaugura- 
tion of  his  father's  work  there  in  1863-64. 

Woodruff  was  for  several  years  Associate  Editor  of  the  Inter- 
national Evangel,  published  in  St.  Louis,  and  edited  the  Foreign 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  309 

Sunday  School  Department.  He  published  'The  Pilgrims'  Leg- 
acy/' an  address  delivered  December  18,  1898,  before  the  United 
Congregational  Churches  of  Bridgeport  in  commemoration  of 
Forefathers  Day,  and  his  Twenty-fifth  Anniversary  sermon 
delivered  October  14,  1906.  On  the  occasion  of  the  latter,  his 
people  presented  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodruff  with  a  beautiful  loving 
cup,  in  which  were  served  grapes  with  the  juice  still  in  them. 
He  has  also  written  a  number  of  newspaper  articles,  chiefly  on 
Sunday  school  topics. 

On  October  15,  1884,  he  was  married,  at  Black  Rock,  to  Mary 
A.  Bartram. 

Henry  Parks  Wright 

Only  son  of  Parks  and  Relief  Willard  (Woolley)  Wright,  who  were 
married  at  Hinsdale,  N.  H.,  March  2,  1836.  His  father,  Parks  Wright, 
born  in  Winchester,  N.  H.,  June  11,  1808,  a  contractor  and  builder  of  that 
town,  was  son  of  Ellsworth  Wright  and  a  descendant  in  the  ninth  gen- 
eration of  Samuel  Wright,  who  was  deacon  of  the  church  in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  in  1639.  His  mother,  Relief  W.  Woolley,  was  daughter  of  Dr. 
David  Woolley  of  Hinsdale,  N.  H.,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  of  Han- 
nah (Crawford)  Woolley,  daughter  of  Captain  John  Crawford  of 
Oakham,  Mass. 

Dr.  David  Woolley  was  born  November  3,  1760,  at  Shirley,  Mass. 
About  three  years  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War  he  settled 
as  a  physician  in  Halifax,  Vt.  Six  years  later  he  removed  to  Hinsdale, 
where  he  was  prominent  in  town  affairs  and  was  sent  several  terms  as 
Representative  to  the  General  Court  at  Concord.  He  married  for  his 
second  wife  Hannah  Crawford,  June  13,  1814.  Their  only  child,  Relief 
Willard,  was  born  March  3,  1815.  Dr.  Woolley  died  November  11,  1844, 
aged  eighty-four  years. 

Captain  John  Crawford,  born  January  7,  1739,  was  son  of  Alexander 
Crawford,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Oakham.  He  commanded  the  com- 
pany of  Oakham  Minutemen  who  marched  in  response  to  the  Lexington 
alarm  on  April  19,  1775.  May  31,  1776,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  of 
the  Oakham  Company  in  the  Fourth  Worcester  County  Regiment  of 
Massachusetts  Militia,  which  office  he  held  till  the  close  of  the  war.  He 
was  in  command  of  a  company  in  Colonel  Job  Cushing's  Massachusetts 
Regiment  at  the  Battles  of  Saratoga  and  Stillwater.  He  married  for  his 
third  wife  Mary  Ford  of  Pembroke.  Their  daughter,  Hannah,  was  born 
August  16,  1782.  Captain  Crawford  died  October  16,  1824,  in  the  eighty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age. 

Flenry  P.  Wright  was  born  in  Winchester,  November  30,  1839. 
His  father  died  January  8,  1840;   his  mother  died  November  27, 


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1842.  After  the  death  of  his  parents,  he  lived  with  his  grand- 
mother, who  in  1846,  after  the  decease  of  her  husband,  removed 
to  her  early  home  in  Oakham.  He  began  to  teach  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  the  town  in  1856,  and  continued  teaching  in  the 
fall  and  winter  for  several  years. 

He  began  his  preparation  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  but  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  Middle  Year  to  enter 
the  army,  enlisting  in  August,  1862,  in  Company  F,  Fifty-first 


Massachusetts  Infantry.  He  was  appointed  Sergeant  November 
4,  1862,  was  Clerk  of  Company  F,  and  was  detailed  to  serve  as 
Assistant  Quartermaster  when  Company  F,  with  other  com- 
panies, was  on  picket  or  provost  duty.  He  served  with  the  regi- 
ment till  it  was  mustered  out,  July  27,  1863.  On  his  return  home, 
he  finished  his  preparation  for  Yale  with  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  N. 
Peloubet,  then  settled  over  the  Congregational  Church  in  Oakham. 
He  earned  his  way  in  great  part  through  the  four  years  ;  won 
the  Hurlbut  Scholarship  in  Freshman  year;  took  prizes  in  Dec- 
lamation and  in  Composition  in  Sophomore  and  Senior  years 
had  the  Latin  Oration  at  Junior  Exhibition ;  was  one  of  the 
Commencement  speakers ;  and  graduated  with  Philosophical  rank- 
in  scholarship. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES GRADUATES  311 

After  graduation  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
an  instructor  in  the  Chickering  Institute.  In  July,  1869,  he  was 
appointed  Tutor  in  Greek  and  Latin  in  Yale  College,  and  began 
his  duties  in  January  following.  In  July,  1871,  he  was  appointed 
Assistant  Professor  of  Latin  for  five  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
term  was  elected  to  the  Dunham  Professorship  of  Latin.  In 
1876  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  at  Yale,  after  a  course  of 
study  under  Professors  Whitney  and  Thacher.  From  April,  1877, 
to  August,  1878,  he  was  a  student  at  the  Universities  of  Gottin- 
gen  and  Berlin.  In  1895  he  received  the  Honorary  Degree  of 
LL.D.  from  Union  College. 

In  July,  1884,  he  was  appointed,  by  President  Porter,  Dean  of 
Yale  College,  which  position  he  held  for  twenty-five  years,  with- 
drawing from  active  service  in  1909,  when  he  had  reached  the 
age  at  which,  by  act  of  the  Corporation,  all  officers  of  the  Uni- 
versity are  retired. 

At  their  last  meeting  for  the  year,  June  25,  1909,  at  the  close 
of  his  twenty-five  years'  service  as  Dean,  the  College  Faculty 
presented  him  with  a  silver  medal.  In  making  the  presentation 
in  behalf  of  the  Faculty,  Professor  Bernadotte  Perrin  addressed 
him  as  follows  : 

"Mr.  Dean: — You  could  hardly  suppose  that,  after  twenty-five  years  of 
such  service  as  you  have  given  to  Yale  College,  your  colleagues  would 
suffer  you  to  lay  down  the  burdens  of  your  high  office  without  attempting, 
however  inadequately,  to  express  their  appreciation  of  what  you  have 
done  for  the  College  and  for  them. 

"You  are  the  first  Dean  of  Yale  College.  In  theatrical  parlance,  you 
have  created  the  role.  Gradually  and  insensibly  the  duties  of  the  office 
have  grown  in  scope  and  number,  until  from  serving  as  a  higher  division 
or  class  officer  you  have  come  to  act  in  as  large  a  capacity  as  the  old 
Presidents  of  the  College.  With  the  ever  growing  demands  of  the  office, 
you  have  steadily  grown  in  resourcefulness  and  power.  Along  with 
exacting  and  complicated  administrative  labors,  you  have  continued  to 
the  very  last  to  be  a  stimulating  teacher,  a  sound  and  reputable  scholar 
and  editor.  But  your  greatest  service  is  that  you  have  introduced  a  new 
era  here  in  the  relations  between  students  and  Faculty.  From  a  relation 
of  distrust  and  antipathy,  we  have  passed  to  one  of  mutual  confidence  and 
amity.  To  arbitrate  between  a  large  body  of  impulsive  young  men  and  a 
College  Faculty,  is  no  light  matter.  We  all  know  how  volcanic  is  the  one, 
and  how  full  of  'horned  cattle'  is  the  other.  How  impartially  you  have 
served  the  interests  of  both  is  seen  by  the  fact  that  the  students  charge 
you  with  leaning  too  much  toward  the  Faculty  side  of  questions,  and  the 
Faculty  of  espousing  too  warmly  the  interests  of  the  students.  Both  are 
wrong,  and  you  alone  are  right. 


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"You  have  shown  yourself  a  Master  of  the  Young  Man's  Heart.  On 
that  wondrous  harp  you  have  smitten  'all  the  chords  with  might' ;  smit- 
ten 'the  chord  of  self,  that,  trembling,  passed  in  music  out  of  sight.'  You 
have  ever  trusted,  and  you  have  taught  us  to  trust  in  the  better  side  of 
the  young  man's  nature.  By  reposing  confidence  in  him,  and  leading 
us  to  do  the  same,  you  have  made  this  great  volcanic  community  in  large 
measure  self-governing.  You  have  cultivated  in  it  the  great  Anglo-Saxon 
heritage  of  self-government.  Instead  of  driving,  you  have  led,  and  have 
taught  us  so  to  do.  You  have  awakened  and  strengthened  men's  con- 
fidence in  their  better  selves.  And  so  you  are  entrenched  impregnably 
in  the  hearts  of  eight  generations  of  Yale  academic  life. — as  impregnably 
also  in  the  hearts  of  all  your  colleagues.  And  as  you  pass  from  the 
office  which  you  have  made  so  high  and  potent,  we  think  of  your  per- 
vasive wisdom,  of  your  calm  confidence  and  hope,  of  the  unswerving  recti- 
tude of  your  course ;  but  the  words  which  echo  to  our  thoughts  of  you 
most  truly  are  those  of  Shakespeare's  most  sweetest  Judge : 

'The  quality  of  mercy  is  not  strained ; 
It  droppeth  as  the  gentle  rain  from  heaven 
Upon  the  place  beneath.     It  is  twice  blest : 
It  blesseth  him  that  gives  and  him  that  takes ; 
It  is  enthroned  in  the  hearts  of  kings ; 
It  is  an  attribute  to  God  himself  ; 
And  earthly  power  doth  then  show  likest  God's 
When  mercy  seasons  justice.' 

During  all  the  twenty-five  years  in  which  you  have  stood  as  Arbiter, 
Mediator,  and  Daysman  between  impulsive  hearts  and  compulsive  author- 
ity, you  have  consistently  seasoned  justice  with  mercy,  and  invigorated 
mercy  with  justice." 

On  retiring  from  the  Dean's  office,  he  was  elected  an  Honor- 
ary Member  of  the  graduating  class  (Class  of  1909),  and  received 
an  engrossed  certificate  of  membership. 

Wright  is  a  Trustee  of  the  Connecticut  College  for  Women,  and 
of  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in  New  Haven  (since  1886), 
and  was  for  a  few  years  one  of  the  Trustees  of  Air.  [Moody's 
School  for  Boys  at  Mount  Hermon,  Mass.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Yale  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  a  member  of 
its  Executive  Committee  till  191 1  when  he  resigned,  and  for  two 
years  its  President.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Academy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences,  of  the  American  Philological  Association, 
of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  of  the  American 
Historical  Association,  of  the  Xew  Haven  Colony  Historical 
Society,  and  of  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society: 
also  of  the  Graduate  Club  and  Yale  Alumni  Association  of  Xcw 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  313 

Haven.     He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Yale  Cooperative 
Corporation  and  its  first  President. 
He  has  published : 

"Satires  of  Juvenal,"   Ginn  &  Co.,  1901. 

"Reports  of  the  Dean  of  Yale  College,"  1900-09.  New  Haven.  The 
Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press. 

"Fobes  Memorial  Library,  Oakham,  Mass.,"  with  two  historical 
addresses.     The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press.     1009. 

"The  Early  Grammar  Schools  of  New  England,"  an  address  before 
the  graduating  class  of  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  upon  its  250th  anni- 
versary.    The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press.     1910. 

"From  School  Through  College."    The  Yale  University   Press.     191 1. 

"Independence  Day  in  1797."     The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press. 

[91  !. 

"Soldiers  of  Oakham,  Mass."  The  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor  Press. 
1914. 

He  was  married  July  7,  1874,  at  Oakham,  to  Martha  Eliza- 
beth Burt  (graduate  of  the  Oread  Collegiate  Institute,  1871), 
daughter  of  Alfred  Ely  and  Elizabeth  (Lincoln)  Burt,  and  has 
had  four  children :  Alice  Lincoln,  born  in  Oakham,  July  13,  1875  ; 
Henry  Burt,  born  in  New  Haven,  January  29,  1877;  Alfred 
Parks,  born  in  New  Haven,  January  5,  1880;  Ellsworth,  born  in 
Oakham,  August  22,  1884. 

Alice  passed  the  examination  for  admission  to  Yale  College 
and  was  admitted  to  Wellesley  College,  where  she  was  graduated 
in  1897.  She  took  a  course  in  English  in  the  Yale  Graduate 
School,  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  1901,  and 
is  a  teacher  of  English  in  the  Connecticut  State  Normal  School 
in  New  Haven. 

Henry  received  from  Yale  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in 
1898  and  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  1903.  In  1903  he  was  made 
tutor  in  Greek  and  Latin  in  the  college.  Five  years  later  he 
was  appointed  Assistant  Professor  of  History.  In  1914  he  was 
transferred  to  the  Yale  School  of  Religion  to  fill  the  newly  estab- 
lished Stephen  Merrell  Clement  professorship  of  Christian 
Methods.  He  was  married,  July  24,  1907,  to  Josephine  Lemira 
Hayward  (B.A.  Wellesley  1898),  daughter  of  Dr.  Joseph  W. 
Hayward  of  Taunton,  Mass. 

Alfred  died  May  20,  1901.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Class  in  Yale  College,  with  high  rank  in  scholarship.  His  degree 
was  given  at  Commencement,  1901,  by  special  vote  of  the 
Corporation. 


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THE    CLASS    OF    I 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


*Horatio  Greene  Yates 

Son  of  William  P.  and  Louisa  Ann  (Parmenter)  Yates,  was 
born  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  January  25,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  by  Isaac  M.  Wellington  of  that  place,  and  at  Yonkcrs 
(N.  Y.)  Preparatory  School. 

After  graduating-  at  Yale,  he  returned  to  Elmira  and  studied 
civil  engineering,  intending  to  follow  that  as  his  profession.  Cir- 
cumstances made  it  important  for  him  to  have  a  knowledge  of  law, 
and  he  subsequently  studied  with  E.  H.  Benn,  Esq.,  of  Elmira, 
and  attended  the  Columbia  University  Law  School,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1876.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  the  same 
year.  His  chief  business  was  the  care  of  the  farm  and  city 
property  in  which  he  was  largely  interested.  He  retired  from 
active  business  a  few  years  before  his  death,  which  occurred 
March  18,  1896. 

He  was  married  June  4,  1884,  to  Alice  Salmon,  and  had  two 
children:  Fanny,  born  April  6,  1886;  William  Parmenter,  born 
September  7,  1887. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — GRADUATES  315 

Fanny  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Elmira 
College  in  1906,  and  during  the  following  year  pursued  graduate 
studies  at  Bryti  Mawr. 

William  Parmenter  was  graduated  in  Law  from  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  1912. 

Airs.  Yates  resides  at  215  West  Church  St.,  Elmira,  N.  Y. 


NON-GRADUATES 


♦Arthur  Hoyt  Averill 

Son  of  Hon.  Roger  Averill,  was  born  July  6,  1845,  m  Salisbury, 
Conn.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary.  He 
left  the  Class  during  the  second  term  of  Freshman  year,  subse- 
quently entered  '69,  and  was  graduated  with  that  Class. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '69  class  book. 


William  Henry  Backus 

Son  of  Hon.  Thomas  and  Sarah  A.  Backus,  was  born  in  West 
Killingly,  Conn.,  July  29,  1844.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  entered  the  Class  of  '68  at  Brown 
University,  where  he  remained  one  term,  and  joined  '68  at  Yale 
in  January,  1865.  He  remained  with  the  Class  till  the  first  term 
of  Junior  year,  and  afterward  graduated  with  the  Class  of  '70. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '70  class  book. 


*George  Dunlap  Ballantyne 

Son  of  Nathaniel  Ballantyne,  was  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
March  22,  1843. 

Before  entering  college,  he  served  in  the  army,  in  the  One 
I  [undred  and  Ninety-third  Pennsylvania  Infantry,  a  regiment 
organized  at  Pittsburgh  July  24,  1864,  which  volunteered  for 
one  hundred  days. 

He  came  to  Yale  from  Jefferson  College,  Cannonsburg,  Pa.,  in 
January,  1865,  and  was  a  member  of  '68  till  the  close  of  the  second 
term  of  Junior  year.  He  was  President  of  the  Yale  Chess  Club. 
and  at  the  time  of  the  athletic  events  at  Worcester,  July  25-27,  1866, 
he,  as  the  representative  of  Yale  '68,  played  a  chess  match  with 
C.  S.  Hunt  of  Harvard  '68,  in  which  Ballantyne  was  generally 
acknowledged  the  winner,  though  the  final  game  was  not  finished. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — NON-GRADUATES  31  7 

In  October,  1867,  ne  entered  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  March,  1870.  He  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  from  1871  till  his  death,  which  occurred 
July  13,  1891. 

He  was  married,  September  21,  1871,  to  Clara  Swoope  of 
Pittsburgh. 


*Gidclings  Moses  Ballou 

Son  of  Rev.  Moses  Ballou,  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
January  3,  1846.  He  was  prepared  for  Yale  at  Manhattan  Col- 
lege (New  York  Free  Academy),  joined  '68  at  the  beginning  of 
the  course,  and  remained  with  the  class  till  the  second  term  of 
Sophomore  year. 

He  matriculated  in  the  School  of  Medicine  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  March  30,  1866,  and  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  from  that  institution  in  1868.  The  subject 
of  his  essay  was  "Extraction  of  Cataract." 

He  was  drowned,  July  25,  1868,  while  bathing  near  Atlantic 
City,  N.  J. 

John  Frederick  Barnett 

Son  of  William  Noyes  and  Mary  (Pritchard)  Barnett,  and  brother  of 
William  E.  Barnett  of  the  class  of  1864,  Yale  College.  His  father  was 
son  of  Samuel  Barnett,  who  married  the  daughter  of  Paul  Noyes  of 
New  Haven.  His  mother,  Mary  Sullivan  Pritchard,  was  daughter  of 
Paul  Pritchard,  a  shipping  merchant  and  builder  of  Charleston,  S.  C. 

John  F.  Barnett  was  born  June  26,  1846,  in  West  Haven,  Conn. 
His  preparation  for  Yale  was  received  partly  at  Brown's  School 
in  West  Haven,  and  partly  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  in 
Xew  Haven.  He  entered  Yale  College  with  the  Class  of  '68,  but 
left  before  the  end  of  Freshman  year  to  enter  the  Yale  Medical 
School,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1869. 

After  graduating  in  medicine,  he  was  at  the  Hartford  City 
Hospital  one  year,  and  was  Ship  Surgeon  between  Liverpool  and 
Xew  York  two  years.  In  October,  1872,  he  commenced  practice 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  being  connected  with  the  Central  Dispensary 
and  Raymond  Street  Hospital.  In  1875  he  removed  to  West 
Haven,  where  he  still  continues  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 


318  THE    CLASS    OF    l868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

He  held  the  position  of  Health  Officer  for  twenty  years,  and  was 
Medical  Examiner  for  the  town  until  October,  19 10. 

In  August,  191 1,  in  a  collision  between  his  automobile  and  a 
trolley  car,  he  suffered  very  serious  injury,  and  hardly  survived 
the  shock.  His  leg  was  fractured.  After  eight  weeks  in  bed, 
and  four  months  in  house,  he  recovered  and  resumed  his  practice. 
Though  still  lame,  he  is  now  enjoying  good  health. 

In  1880  he  was  married  to  Mary  E.  Keeley  of  Ottawa,  Canada. 
They  have  had  two  children,  only  one  of  whom  is  now  living: 
Frederick  Herbert,  born  October  24,  1887,  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  West  Haven  and  at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  and 
now  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven 
and  Hartford  Railroad. 

Dr.  Barnett  is  a  member  of  the  State,  County,  and  City  Medical 
Associations,  and  also  of  Kings  County  Medical  Society  of  New 
York. 

*Lewis  Sylvester  Bemis 

Son  of  Joshua  Bemis,  was  born  in  North  Chester,  Mass.,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary. 

He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year, 
and  in  the  following  September  joined  '69,  of  which  he  was  a 
member  until  the  second  term  of  Junior  year. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  was  in  business  for  some  years  in 
Springfield,  Mass.  He  subsequently  studied  bridge-building, 
which  occupation  he  followed  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life. 

He  died  at  Sabine,  Texas,  August  28,  1900. 


*William  Henry  Birney 

Born  in  New  York  City,  November  27,  1844.  He  began  his 
preparation  for  college  at  the  Connecticut  Literary  Institution, 
Suffield,  Conn.,  but  gave  up  his  studies  to  enlist  in  the  army.  In 
1862-63  he  served  in  Virginia,  with  the  Twenty-second  Connect- 
icut Infantry.  After  his  discharge  he  returned  to  Suffield  and 
finished  his  preparation  for  Yale.  When  he  entered  college,  his 
father  was  not  living  and  his  home  was  with  his  mother,  Mrs. 
Mary  Birney,  in  New  Hartford,  Conn. 


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The  father  of  his  roommate  thus  described  Birney  as  he 
appeared  at  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year: 

"A  keen,  sharp-witted  Yankee ;  obliged  to  study  strict  economy ;  trained 
to  industry;  not  ashamed  to  help  himself;  anxious  to  study,  with  his  eye 
fixed  on  the  future  use  of  his  attainments;  gentlemanly  in  his  deport- 
ment ;  of  rather  pleasant  countenance  and  cheerful  voice ;  clear-sighted 
in  making  a  bargain;  evidently  somewhat  used  to  the  world,  and  not 
afraid  to  say  what  he  thinks;    yet  modest,  withal,  and  unassuming." 

He  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Junior  year,  was 
married  soon  after,  and  was  for  a  short  time  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
As  far  as  it  has  been  possible  to  learn,  no  member  of  his  family 
and  no  army  comrade  has  heard  from  him  since.  As  he  has  never 
applied  for  a  soldier's  pension,  it  is  quite  certain  that  he  is  no 
longer  living. 


♦John  Wemple  Bowman 

Son  of  Alexander  and  Pamelia  (Stillwell)  Bowman,  was  born 
in  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  April  i,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y. 

He  left  the  class  during  the  third  term  of  Sophomore  year,  went 
immediately  to  St.  Louis  and  entered  the  employ  of  Stillwell, 
Powell  &  Company,  steamboat  owners.  In  a  short  time  he  became 
head  clerk  of  one  of  their  boats,  the  "W.  R.  Arthur,"  running 
between  St.  Louis  and  New  Orleans.  This  boat  was  then,  with 
one  exception,  the  largest  ever  built  on  the  Mississippi  River.  Its 
boiler  exploded  on  the  night  of  January  28,  187 1,  and  no  trace 
was  found  of  Bowman  after  the  accident. 

In  his  last  letter  to  Robbins,  he  wrote : 

"I  enjoy  a  business  life,  and  believe  I  am  happier  here  than  I  should 
have  been  in  a  profession.  The  time  which  I  spent  at  college,  however, 
was  by  no  means  lost,  and  I  would  not  part  with  what  I  there  acquired 
for  any  compensation." 


Halsted  Boylan 

Son  of  James  and  Mary  Kerr  (Halsted)  Boylan.  He  is  of  Irish  and 
English  descent.  His  father,  James  Boylan,  was  of  the  well-known  and 
distinguished  family  of  that  name  in  Connemara  and  Sligo  Counties.    One 


320  THE    CLASS   OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

of  his  ancestors  was  a  physician,  Dr.  James  Boylan,  a  graduate  of  Dublin 
University,  Ireland.  The  family  of  his  mother,  Miss  Mary  Kerr  Halsted, 
of  New  Jersey,  came  from  Sussex  County,  England. 

Halsted  Boylan  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  January  19, 
1845,  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
joined  the  Class  of  '68  in  January,  1865,  and  remained  till  near 
the  close  of  the  second  term  of  Sophomore  year. 

From  Yale  College  he  went  to  the  celebrated  Jesuit  College  of 
Juilly,  near  Paris,  for  one  year  and  then  entered  the  University 
of  Paris  in  the  ecole  de  Medicine.  Soon  the  Franco-German  War 
broke  out,  and  he  was  appointed  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  Army 
of  the  Rhine  and  served  through  the  war,  going  through  the  siege 
of  Metz  and  being  in  the  battles  fought  around  Metz.  After  the 
war,  he  continued  his  medical  course  in  Berlin,  and  in  Leipsic, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  medicine  May  15,  1874.  Returning 
to  America,  he  settled  in  Baltimore  and  practiced  there,  being  a 
member  of  the  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty  of  Maryland  and 
of  several  local  and  national  scientific  societies,  and  receiving  the 
degree  of  M.A.  from  Lafayette  College  in  1875.  He  was  for 
five  consecutive  summers  resident  physician  at  the  Buffalo  Lithia 
Springs,  Virginia,  being  at  that  time  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the 
Baltimore  Medical  College.  Later  he  returned  to  Paris  and 
graduated  at  the  ecole  de  Medicine  and  resided  there,  practicing 
his  profession  many  years. 

He  was  married,  December  14,  1872,  to  Ellen  Gilmor,  daughter 
of  Robert  Gilmor  and  sister  of  Col.  Harry  Gilmor,  the  celebrated 
Confederate  leader. 

His  only  daughter,  Florence  Halsted  Boylan,  was  married  to 
Vicomte  Alfredo  de  Monteverde,  Counselor  of  the  Portuguese 
Legation  at  Rome,  in  that  city,  in  July,  1908. 

After  the  death  of  his  wife  in  Rome  in  1909,  he  returned  to 
America  and  is  now  residing  in  Baltimore.  He  was  again  mar- 
ried, on  June  15,  191 1,  at  Baltimore,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Lloyd  Key 
Gilmor,  granddaughter  of  Francis  Scott  Key. 

His  book,  "Six  Months  under  the  Red  Cross,"  was  published 
by  Robert  Clark  &  Company,  1872. 


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Walter  Buck 

Son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  Greene  (Hubbard)  Buck.  His  father, 
Edward  Buck  (Yale  College  1835),  a  lawyer  of  Boston,  and  editor  of  a 
volume  entitled  "Massachusetts  Ecclesiastical  Law,"  was  a  descendant  oi 
Governor  Gurdon  Saltonstall  and  Governor  John  Winthrop.  His  mother, 
Elizabeth  Greene  Hubbard,  was  daughter  of  Hon.  Samuel  Hubbard  (Yale 
College  1802),  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts. 

Walter  Buck  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  September  29,  1847, 
came  to  Yale  from  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  entered  with  '68 
at  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year,  left  the  Class  in  January, 
1865,  on  account  of  ill-health,  and  was  graduated  with  the  Class 
of  '/O. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '70  class  book. 


William  Benedict  Bull 

Son  of  Lorenzo  Bull,  a  descendant  of  the  Colonial  Captain  Thomas 
Bull,  who  served  in  the  Pequot  War.  His  mother  was  Margaret  Hunter 
Benedict,  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Benedict  of  Millbury,  Mass.,  and 
granddaughter  of  Dr.  Joel  Benedict,  a  noted  divine. 

William  B.  Bull  was  born  in  Quincy,  111.,  November  8,  1844. 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  William  B.  Corby n  of 
Palmyra,  Mo. 

He  was  from  the  beginning  one  of  the  prominent  men  in  the 
class.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Freshman  Class 
Supper,  held  at  the  Savin  Rock  House,  West  Haven,  at  the  close 
of  the  Freshman  annual  examinations,  and  was  one  of  the  Class 
Historians  on  that  occasion.  He  left  the  class  during  the  second 
term  of  Sophomore  year  and  engaged  in  banking  in  Quincy. 

He  was  half  owner,  and  manager  of  the  Quincy  Water  Works 
till  1904,  when  he  sold  to  the  city.  For  one  year  he  was  President 
of  the  American  WTater  Works  Association,  a  representative 
organization  of  water  works  owners  and  officers  from  all  over 
the  country.  In  1896  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since 
claimed  residence,  though  from  1904  to  1909  he  lived  in  New 
York  City.  His  line  of  business  for  thirty  years,  up  to  1904,  was 
chiefly  that  of  public  purveyor  of  water.     He  has  lately  become 


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associated  with  an  old  partner,  O.  H.  Jewell,  who  has  perfected 
a  new  way  of  making  ice  from  natural  water  that  is  as  clear  and 
pure  as  that  made  from  distilled  water,  and  the  two  have  organ- 
ized the  Polar  Ice  Machine  Company.  The  company  have  plants 
operating  successfully,  or  under  construction,  from  California 
to  Porto  Rico.  The  Ritz-Carlton  Hotel  of  New  York  City  and 
the  Blackstone  Hotel  of  Chicago  make  their  ice  by  this  process 
and  with  this  apparatus.     Bull  has  written  several  papers  on  the 


question  of  water  purification.  His  last  paper,  "A  New  Method 
of  Chemical  Treatment  of  Water,"  was  read  before  the  third 
annual  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Water  Supply  Association  at 
Urbana,  February,  191 1. 

He  was  married  July  5,  1882,  in  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  to  Mary  Woods, 
and  has  four  children:  Margaret  Benedict,  born  March  24,  1884; 
Helen  Parker,  born  September  21,  1885  ;  Hilda,  born  January  20. 
1888;  Lorenzo,  born  June  7,  1890;  all  in  Quincy. 

Margaret,  having  artistic  taste  and  talent,  is  studying  at  the 
School  of  Design  in  New  York  City. 

Helen  was  married,  April  29,  1909,  to  Alan  Patrick  Campbell, 
of  London,  son  of  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell. 


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Hilda  is  engaged  in  settlement  work  at  the  Hull  House  in 
Chicago. 

Lorenzo  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  with  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  rank  in  scholarship,  in  the  Class  of  1913.  He  distin- 
guished himself  in  mathematics  and  science,  taking  the  Barge 
Mathematical  Prizes  in  Freshman  and  Sophomore  years,  and 
Special  Honors  in  Physical  Sciences  at  graduation.  For  special 
excellence  in  scientific  studies,  he  was  also  elected  a  member  of 
Sigma  Xi.  He  is  at  present  (1914)  a  teacher  in  the  Santa 
Barbara  School,  Carpenteria,  Cal. 


John  Adam  Cake 

Son  of  Col.  Joseph  Warren  Cake  of  Sunbury,  Pa.,  Collector  of  the 
Port  of  Philadelphia,  and  for  many  years  President  of  the  Farmers'  Bank 
of  Schuylkill  County  at  Pottsville.  His  grandfather,  John  Cake,  was 
of  Scotch  descent.  His  mother  was  Julia  Adams  of  Litchfield  County, 
Conn.,  a  daughter  of  Amy  Brown,  also  of  Litchfield  County. 

John  A.  Cake  was  born  August  25,  1846,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa., 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Augustine  Hart  of  New  Haven, 
Conn.  He  entered  with  the  Class  of  '68,  but  left  during  the  first 
term.  Soon  after  leaving  Yale,  he  opened  a  law  office  in  Sun- 
bury,  Pa.,  where  he  still  continues  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

He  was  married,  February  27,  1868,  to  Minnie  E.  McCullough, 
at  Pottsville,  and  has  had  six  children,  three  of  whom  are  now 
living". 


*John  Clarkson  Calhoun 

Son  of  Captain  John  Calhoun  of  the  United  States  Navy,  was 
born  in  New  York  City  April  25,  1844,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  by  Professor  Meigs  of  Pottstown,  Pa.  He  left  the  Class 
during  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year,  and  was  subsequently  a 
member  of  '69  for  a  few  weeks. 

He  died  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  October  16,  1867. 


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THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


*Frank  Ferdinand  Cecil 

Son  of  John  Rogers  Cecil,  a  prominent  New  York  merchant, 
was  born  July  18,  1845,  in  Massillon,  Ohio,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  at  Mt.  Pleasant  Academy,  Sing  Sing  (now  Ossining), 
N.  Y.  He  entered  the  Class  at  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year, 
but  left  in  December,  1865,  to  engage  in  business  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  became  a  prominent  merchant.     He  was  for  several 


years  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Bulkley,  Murfey  &  Cecil,  anc 
in  1875  entered  the  firm  of  Sherman,  Hayes  &  Co.,  importers. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Hayes,  several  years 
later,  the  firm  was  changed  to  Sherman,  Cecil  &  Co. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary  in  the  Spring  of  1893,  he  said : 

"Since  I  last  wrote  you  I  have  grown  a  little  older,  a  little  goutiefl 
somewhat  less  tolerant  of  other  people's  crochets,  and  have  several  more 
of  them  of  my  own.  In  fact,  my  life  is  and  has  been  drifting  along  a-  <i 
a  majority  of  lives  that  do  not  end  a  short  existence  in  a  blaze  of  glory  01 
a  cloud  of  infamy.  The  chief  end  of  my  existence  is,  as  it  was  five  yean 
ago,  the  same,  only  more  so  since  the  advent  of  that  peculiar  breed  01 
tariff  abominations  known  as   'McKinleyism.'     In  fact,  I  am  a  fair  sample 


BIOGRAPB  [CAL   SKETCHES — NON-GRADUATES  325 

of  a  merchant  who  has  come  to  have  no  great  fondness  for  business,  but 
gets  what  pleasure  he  has  in  life  out  of  the  cultivation  of  the  few  acres 
that  surround  his  home." 

( Veil  was  a  member  of  the  Merchants'  Club,  and  was  exceed- 
ingly popular  among  his  friends  and  acquaintances.  He  displayed 
marked  abilities  as  a  merchant,  and  his  efforts  contributed  largely 
to  the  success  of  the  firm  of  which  he  was  a  member. 

He  died  of  disease  of  the  kidneys,  at  his  home  in  Summit, 
X.  I.,  on  Wednesday,  December  27,  1893. 


*  Roswell  Lyman  Colt,  Jr. 

His  father  was  Roswell  Lyman  Colt  of  Paterson,  N.  J.,  who  was  a 
connection  of  Samuel  Colt,  founder  of  the  Colt  Firearms  Company  of 
Hartford,  Conn.  His  mother,  Jane  M.  (Davison)  Colt,  was  born  in  the 
West  Indies.  The  family  lived  for  a  time  in  New  York  City,  where  the 
son  was  born. 

Roswell  L.  Colt,  Jr.,  studied  in  preparation  for  college  under 
Rev.  Fiske  P.  Brewer  of  New  Haven,  and  while  in  college  lived 
with  his  mother  at  226  Church  Street.  He  had  serious  trouble 
with  his  eyes,  and  left  the  class  in  consequence  before  the  close 
of  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year. 

Soon  after  leaving  Yale  he  went  abroad  with  his  mother,  where 
he  remained  till  he  was  thirty  years  old.  He  inherited  great 
wealth,  and  after  his  return  to  America  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  social  life  of  New  York.  For  many  years  he  was  a  leading 
member  of  the  New  York  Club  and  was  one  of  its  officers  when 
that  organization  was  disbanded.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
St.  Nicholas  Society. 

His  eyes  grew  worse,  and  toward  the  close  of  his  life  he  became 
nearly  blind.  Partly  on  account  of  this  disease,  he  did  not  engage 
in  any  regular  business,  though  he  dealt  to  some  extent  in  stocks. 
He  was  for  some  years  a  resident  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  but  retired 
about  a  year  ago  to  the  Self  Masters'  Colony  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J., 
where  he  died  January  14,  19 14,  aged  seventy  years.  Funeral 
services  were  held  at  Stephen  Merritt's  Chapel,  in  New  York  City, 
on  Friday  afternoon,  January  16.  Interment  was  in  Woodlawn 
Cemetery. 


326  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

William  Bates  Davenport 

Was  born  in  New  York  City,  March  10,  1847.  ^e  was  pre- 
pared for  college  by  J.  C.  Overhiser  of  Brooklyn,  and  entered 
Yale  with  '67,  remaining-  with  that  class  till  the  third  term  of 
Sophomore  year.  In  the  summer  of  1865  he  was  connected  with 
'68  for  a  short  time. 

In  June,  1887,  Yale  University  conferred  on  him  the  honorary 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  with  enrollment  in  the  Class  of  '6y. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '6y  class  book. 


*Asa  Wilton  Day 

Son  of  Asa  Day  of  Marlborough,  Conn.  His  mother  was  Charlotte  P. 
Jones,  whose  father  and  mother  were  born  on  the  same  day,  married 
at  twenty-one,  and  both  lived  to  be  eighty-eight  years  old. 

Asa  W.  Day  was  born  in  Marlborough,  May  6,  1844,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  A.  J.  Pike  of  that  place.  He  left 
the  class  at  the  close  of  the  first  term. 

In  the  spring  of  1865  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cotton 
goods,  with  factories  at  Marlborough  and  near  Newtown,  Conn., 
in  the  Housatonic  Valley.  In  1868  he  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
necticut House  of  Representatives,  on  the  Democratic  side. 

He  sold  out  his  interests  in  the  cotton  business  in  1869,  anc^ 
became  state  agent  for  Connecticut  of  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  with  headquarters  at  Hart- 
ford.    This  position  he  held  for  about  twelve  years. 

In  1882  he  located  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  established  himself  in 
the  wholesale  rubber  business,  with  his  brother,  Samuel  J.  Day, 
becoming  President  of  the  Day  Rubber  Company,  which  employed 
a  large  number  of  traveling  salesmen  and  covered  a  large  extent 
of  territory.  After  1904  he  was  not  active  in  business,  but  still 
kept  in  touch  with  it. 

He  was  a  charter  member  and  Vice-President  of  the  New 
England  Society  of  St.  Louis,  and  a  member  of  the  Mercantile 
Club,  and  of  the  Business  Men's  League. 

Mr.  Day  died  at  his  home  in  St.  Louis,  December  28,  1913. 


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He  was  married  June  10,  1869,  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  to  Mary  R. 
Coit,  and  had  three  children:  Robert  Coit,  born  May  7,  1870; 
Marion,  born  September  21,  1871 ;   Alice  Coit,  born  January  18, 

1873. 

Robert  married  Kate  Morgan,  daughter  of  Captain  O.  H. 
Morgan,  in  October,  1895,  and  has  two  children.  He  is  now  the 
Manager  of  the  Day  Rubber  Company.     For  five  years  he  served 


as  President  of  the  St.  Louis  Republican  Club.  He  was  one  of 
the  four  Delegates  at  Large,  representing  the  St.  Louis  district,  to 
the  National  Republican  Convention  held  at  Chicago  when  Roose- 
velt was  nominated.  He  has  been  President  of  the  Missouri 
Athletic  Club  of  St.  Louis,  which  has  a  membership  of  more  than 
three  thousand. 

Both  of  the  daughters  were  educated  at  Wellesley  College. 
Marion  was  married  in  February,  1902,  to  Mr.  F.  D.  Seward, 
Treasurer  of  the  National  Candy  Company. 


328  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

^Frederick  Richard  Seward  Drake 

The  only  surviving  child  of  Frederick  A.  and  Mary  H. 
(Seward)  Drake,  was  born  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  August  31,  1846, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Dr.  Talcott  of  Guilford,  Conn. 
He  was  a  member  of  '67  during  Freshman  year,  and  of  '68  one 
term.  In  1883  he  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  from  Yale,  with 
enrollment  in  the  Class  of  '67. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '67  class  book. 


Albert  Williamson  Durley 

Son  of  Williamson  and  Elizabeth  (Winters)  Durley.  His  father, 
Williamson  Durley,  was  a  prominent  man  in  Putnam  County,  and  an 
Abolitionist,  or,  as  he  called  himself,  a  "Liberty  man."  It  was  to  him 
that  Abraham  Lincoln  wrote  the  letter  of  October  3,  1845.  regretting 
that  the  Liberty  Men  had  not  voted  with  the  Whigs  in  the  late  election 
and  made  Mr.  Clay  President. 

Albert  W.  Durley  was  born  in  Hennepin,  111.,  October  15,  1841. 
Before  coming  to  Yale,  he  was  a  student  in  the  preparatory 
department  of  Wheaton  College.  He  entered  the  class  October 
10,  1864,  and  was  a  member  till  the  end  of  Freshman  year. 

After  leaving  college,  he  was  Principal  of  a  union  school  at 
LaGrange,  Ind.,  till  July,  1867,  when  he  began  the  study  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Blanchard  &  Leland,  Ottawa,  111.     In  January, 

1869,  he  commenced   to   practice   in   Hennepin.     In   September, 

1870,  he  was  appointed  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  Putnam 
County,  which  office  he  held  for  three  years.  He  removed  in 
1875  t°  LeMars,  Plymouth  Co.,  Iowa,  and  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Dudley  &  Sammis,  counsellors  at  law  and  dealers 
in  real  estate.  In  July,  1892,  he  removed  from  LeMars  to 
Superior,  Wisconsin,  where  he  continues  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  In  November,  1906,  he  was  elected  Assemblyman  in 
Wisconsin,  serving  one  term,  and  was  on  the  Judiciary  Committee 
and  on  the  Committee  on  Manufactures  and  Labor. 

He  was  married  September  18,  1876,  to  Lola  E.  Martland,  and 
has  three  daughters:  Irene,  born  October  28,  1881  ;  Lucille  V., 
born  December  8,  1885  ;  Carrie  E.,  born  April  18,  1888.  Another 
da  lighter,  born  May  20,  1879,  died  September  26,  1880. 


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Irene  was  graduated  in  [902  from  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

Lucille  was  married  August  4,  1909,  to  Russell  Jackson  of 
Madison,  Wis.  A  son,  Russell  Jackson,  Jr.,  was  born  May  26, 
1910.  Mr.  Jackson  was  Deputy  Attorney  General  of  the  State 
from  1907  to  1913,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  general  consul- 
ship of  the  Second  Ward  Savings  Bank  of  Milwaukee,  the  largest 
and  one  of  the  oldest  state  banks  in  Wisconsin,  and  the  general 


Consulship  of  the  Joseph  Schlitz  Brewing  Company.  Among  the 
most  important  cases  which  he  has  presented  as  Deputy  Attorney 
General  are  those  involving  the  constitutionality  of  the  railroad 
rate  commission  law,  the  state  banking  law,  the  primary  election 
law,  the  inheritance  tax  law,  the  home  rule  law,  the  public  utilities 
law.  the  income  tax  law,  the  water  powers  law,  and  the  upper 
berth  law. 

Carrie  was  married  to  Edward  D.  Park,  August  20,  1908,  and 
resides  in  Spokane. 

Mrs.  Lola  M.  Durley  died  March  25,  1907. 


33°  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

*Brown  Hopkins  Emerson 

Son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Daniel  Hopkins  Emerson  (Dartmouth  College 
1830)  and  Lucy  Ann  Williams  (Page),  a  descendant  of  Roger 
Williams,  was  born  in  Chester  Co.,  Pa.,  August  30,  1843.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  entered 
with  '67,  being  a  member  of  that  class  one  year.  In  1864  ne 
served  nearly  six  months  in  the  army,  as  Quartermaster's  clerk, 
in  the  Ninth  Delaware  Volunteers.  In  September,  1865,  he  joined 
'68,  but  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  a  month,  through  failure  ot 
health. 

After  leaving  college,  he  taught  in  New  York  City  and  vicinity. 
and  was  afterwards  employed  by  the  American  Sunday  School 
Union,  during  1869  and  1870,  in  the  missionary  department  in 
New  York  City.  He  graduated  from  the  Union  Theological 
Seminary  in  1873,  having  been  licensed  to  preach  by  the  New 
York  Presbytery  on  the  21st  of  April  preceding.  He  was 
ordained  September  30,  of  the  same  year,  and  preached  at  Ridge- 
bury,  N.  Y.,  for  about  one  year.  In  the  spring  of  1875  he  settled 
over  the  church  in  Litchfield,  N.  H.  From  1878  he  was  for 
several  years  connected  with  the  mission  work  of  the  Philadelphia 
Tract  and  Mission  Society,  and  during  a  part  of  this  time  was  also 
assistant  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Washington 
Square.  He  wrote  a  Centennial  Hymn  for  the  Centennial  of  the 
Ridgebury  Presbyterian  Church,  Orange  Co.,  N.  Y. 

He  was  married  December  23,  1869,  to  Mary  Knowles,  in  New 
York  City,  and  had  three  children :  Brown,  born  in  New  York 
City,  July  11,  1872,  died  in  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  April  21,  1873; 
James  Arthur,  born  in  Ridgebury,  February  23,  1874;  Lucy  Page, 
born  in  Philadelphia  June  13,  1882. 

Brown  H.  Emerson  died  in  Philadelphia  September  10,  19 10. 


^Thomas  Foote 

Son  of  Hon.  Samuel  Alfred  Foote,  LL.D.,  was  born  April  18. 
1847,  in  Milburn,  N.  J.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Peekskill 
Military  Academy.  He  was  connected  with  the  Class  of  '68  at 
Yale  nearly  two  terms.  After  leaving  Yale,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Class  of  '68  in  Beloit  College  for  a  short  time.     He  subse* 


BIOGRAPPIICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  331 

quently  entered  Hobart  College  at  Geneva,  and  graduated  there 
in  1868,  being  valedictorian  of  his  class.  Immediately  after 
graduation,  he  commenced  the  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  in  New  York  City,  where  he  practiced  till  1871,  when, 
being  broken  down  in  health  by  severe  labor,  he  was  compelled 
to  stop  work  and  seek  recreation  and  health  in  the  West.  He 
died  at  Geneva,  December  14,  1872. 

Foote  was  a  member  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
at  Hobart. 

*Molton  Hooks  Forrest 

Son  of  George  J.  Forrest,  was  born  January  12,  1848,  in  New 
Orleans,  La.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Edwards  Place 
School,  Stockbridge,  Mass.  He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the 
first  term,  continued  his  studies  at  Rutgers  College,  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.,  and  was  graduated  there  in  1868.  A  year  later  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical 
College  in  New  York  City,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1872.  After  practicing  his  profession  for  a  few  years  in  New 
York  City,  he  removed  to  Philadelphia.  His  practice  was  con- 
fined mostly  to  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear.  He  died  in  Phila- 
delphia, March  2J,  1894. 

Forrest  received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Rutgers 
in  1871. 

^Walter  Tilly  Foster 

Born  in  Carmel,  N.  Y.,  November  27,  1840,  and  prepared  for 
college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  After  spending  two 
months  with  '67,  he  joined  '68  and  remained  with  the  class  till 
the  close  of  the  first  term. 

Soon  after  leaving  Yale,  he  invested  a  considerable  amount  in 
oil  speculation,  but  was  unfortunate.  In  February,  1867,  ne  went 
to  Central  America,  intending  to  purchase  and  ship  to  the  North 
the  fruits  of  that  country.  In  April  he  entered  the  office  of  the 
Panama  and  Aspinwall  Railroad  Company  as  clerk,  and  was  in 
their  employ  until  the  time  of  his  death,  July  8,  1867.  A  few 
days  before  his  illness  he  wrote  home  that  he  would  sail  for 
New  York  July  3.    On  July  1  he  was  prostrated  by  yellow  fever. 


S32  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

His  remains  were  buried  in  the  cemetery  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany, and  a  lignum  vitae  cross  was  set  up  to  mark  his  last  resting 
place. 

* Jackson  Frick 

Son  of  Caleb  and  Rachel  (Beggs)  Frick.  His  father,  a  native  of  North 
Carolina,  was  the  son  of  a  soldier  who  served  seven  years  in  the  War 
of  the  Revolution.  The  Frick  family  came  from  Switzerland  about  1732. 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  His  mother,  Rachel  Beggs,  of  Irish  descent 
was  the  daughter  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

Jackson  Frick  was  born  August  21,  1845,  m  Jonesboro,  111. 
He  came  east  in  December,  1863,  studied  nine  months  under 
James  Tufts  of  Monson,  Mass.,  and  successfully  passed  the 
examinations  for  admission  to  Yale  in  September  following.  In 
the  spring  of  1866  he  was  obliged  to  leave  college  on  account  of 
his  father's  illness.  He  studied  law  at  the  Albany  Law  School, 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar  February  5,  1868,  and  practiced  in 
Jonesboro.     For  one  term  he  was  State's  Attorney  at  Jonesboro. 

June  16,  1869,  he  was  married  to  Margaret  Jane  Nicholson,  and 
had  two  sons : 

Robert  Nicholson  Frick,  now  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Thomas,  Frick  &  Beede,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  married  to  Maud 
Tufts  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Arnold  Jackson  Frick,  a  practicing  physician  in  Los  Angeles, 
married  to  Irene  Stevens  of  that  city. 

Jackson  Frick  died  at  Jonesboro  in  1877. 

Mrs.  Frick  resides  at  538  Harvard  Boulevard,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


Fayette  Cook  Hall 

Son  of  Samuel  W.  Hall,  a  merchant  of  Ashfield,  Mass.,  a  descendant 
in  the  seventh  generation  from  Deacon  John  Hall,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  England  in  1637,  settled  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  came 
four  years  later  to  Barnstable,  Mass.  His  mother  was  Emeline  Goodwin, 
daughter  of  Anson  and  Temperance   (Rogers)  Goodwin. 

Fayette  C.  Hall  was  born  September  23,  1844,  in  Ashfield, 
Mass.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary.  He 
left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the  first  term. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — NON-GRADUATES  333 

After  leaving  college,  he  took  a  course  in  a  commercial  college 
and  then  went  west.  He  taught  for  a  short  time  in  Quincy,  111., 
and  removed  later  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  blank  books,  in  lithographing,  and  in  printing. 
He  was  for  many  years  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  H.  H.  Hoffman 
&  Company,  blank  book  makers. 

In  May,  1873,  he  was  married  to  Anna  May  Seamon  of 
Chicago. 

Mrs.  Anna  S.  Hall  died  in  1912. 


Frank  Harwood  Hamlin 

Son  of  Henry  W.  and  Sibyll  B.  (Sears)  Hamlin,  was  born  in 
East  Bloomfield,  N.  Y.,  March  29,  1846.  He  was  prepared  for 
college  at  the  East  Bloomfield  Academy,  entered  Yale  with  the 
Class  of  '68,  left  in  the  first  term  of  Freshman  year,  and  graduated 
with  '69. 

His  biographical  sketch  is  given  in  the  '69  class  book. 


Maurice  Waldo  Hayden 

Born  Maurice  Haley,  May  1,  1846.  Perhaps  on  account  of 
the  death  of  his  parents,  he  was  placed  when  quite  young  in  a 
children's  home  in  Massachusetts,  from  which  he  was  taken  when 
about  ten  years  of  age  by  John  Perrin,  a  schoolmaster  and  farmer 
of  South  Windsor,  Conn.  His  name  was  changed  by  Mr.  Perrin 
to  Maurice  Waldo  Hayden. 

Air.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Denison  Talcott  of  Talcottville,  Conn., 
became  interested  in  him  and  planned  to  give  him  a  good  edu- 
cation. They  sent  him  to  Williston  Seminary  to  prepare  for 
college,  and  then  to  Yale,  where  he  remained  about  one  year. 

After  leaving  Yale  he  was,  for  about  two  years,  a  clerk  in 
the  office  of  Talcott  Brothers,  woolen  manufacturers,  of  Talcott- 
ville. In  1868-69  he  was  employed  in  the  lumber  yard  of  G. 
Grosvenor  of  Lawrence,  Kansas.  In  1870-71  he  was  clerk  for 
Maxwell  &  Barker,  dry  goods  merchants,  100  Franklin  St.,  New 
York. 

In  1872-73  he  was  time-keeper  in  the  Missouri  Pacific  Rail- 
way shops  at  St.  Louis,  and  boarded  at  2802  Pacific  Avenue. 


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The  house  in  which  he  boarded  has  since  been  torn  down,  and 
the  ground  on  which  it  stood  made  part  of  a  railroad  yard. 

Hayden  came  back  to  Talcottville  for  a  brief  visit  in  Septem- 
ber, 1874,  upon  the  occasion  of  the  illness  and  death  of  Mrs. 
Talcott.  He  returned  to  St.  Louis,  and  when  he  left  that  city, 
soon  after,  he  spoke  of  going  into  the  cattle  country  of  Wyoming 
and  Montana.  As  his  friends  have  not  heard  from  him  since 
1875,  it  is  probable  that  he  died  in  the  West  many  years  ago. 


*Loren  Leland  Hicks 

Son  of  Elijah  Warren  Hicks,  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass.,  July 
22,  1844,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Worcester  High 
School.  In  1862-63  he  served  in  the  army  in  North  Carolina 
in  the  Fifty-first  Massachusetts  Infantry,  and  was  in  the  actions 
at  Kinston,  White  Hall  and  Goldsboro.  He  left  '68  at  the 
close  of  the  second  term,  joined  '69,  and  remained  with  that  class 
till  the  end  of  Freshman  year. 

After  leaving  college,  he  resided  in  Worcester,  Mass.  He 
taught  for  a  time,  was  for  some  years  a  builder,  and  subsequently 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  335 

was  in  the  grocery  business.  He  was  United  States  Supervisor 
of  Elections  in  1886,  Deputy  Warden  in  1887,  and  a  member  of 
the  Republican  City  Committee  for  1887  and  1888.  In  1889  he 
was  appointed  Janitor  of  the  Belmont  Street  School,  one  of  the 
largest  graded  schools  in  Worcester,  with  eight  hundred  pupils ; 
this  position  he  held  for  twenty-four  years. 

He  was  married  to  Frances  Adelaide  Park,  December  24,  1868, 
at  Worcester,  and  had  four  children:  Alice  May,  born  February 
2,  1870,  in  Worcester;  Agnes  Childs,  born  December  9,  1871,  in 
Worcester;  Helen  Frances,  born  August  31,  1874,  at  Auburn, 
Mass. ;   Grace  Anna,  born  December  2,  1877,  at  Auburn. 

Alice  May  was  married  December  2J,  1894,  to  Henry  Beecher 
Ward. 

Agnes  Childs  was  married  April  7,  1892,  to  Fred  Sumner 
Barrett,  and  has  two  children :  Frances  Jeanette  Barrett,  born 
September  2^,  1897;  Mildred  Alice  Barrett,  born  November  28, 
1899. 

Mrs.  Hicks  died  March  13,  1882.  Mr.  Hicks  was  again  mar- 
ried, on  September  14,  1910,  to  Theresa  Mandana  Park,  sister  of 
his  first  wife. 

After  an  illness  of  two  months,  Loren  L.  Hicks  died,  October 
15,  1913,  of  inflammation  of  the  pancreas. 


Joseph  William  Hobson 

Son  of  Joseph  and  Jane  Jewell  (Libby)  Hobson.  On  the  paternal  side 
he  is  descended  from  William  Hobson,  who  came  from  England  and 
settled  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  the  year  1750. 

Joseph  W.  Hobson  was  born  in  Hollis,  Me.,  May  12,  1845,  anQl 
was  fitted  for  college  under  William  Hobson,  Master  of  the  High 
School  at  Saco,  Me.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '6y  for 
one  term,  joined  '68  at  the  beginning  of  the  course,  and  remained 
with  the  class  until  April,  1865. 

Hobson  traveled  extensively  in  the  West  after  leaving  college, 
and  from  1868  to  1870  lived  in  San  Francisco.  For  the  next 
fifteen  years  he  resided  mostly  in  Saco,  being  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  and  also  interested  in  wheat  farming  in  Dakota. 
He  wTas  Mayor  of  Saco  in  1884.     At  the  expiration  of  his  term 


336  THE    CLASS    OF    l868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

of  office  as  Mayor,  he  went  to  North  Dakota,  seeking  health  for 
his  wife,  but  after  a  few  months'  residence,  returned  to  Maine. 
In  1887  he  removed  to  California,  in  which  state  he  has  resided 
till  the  present  time.  For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in  fruit 
farming  in  Santa  Clara  Valley.  Since  1904  he  has  made  his 
home  in  San  Francisco,  and  was  there  during  the  great  catas- 
trophe of  April,  1906. 


He  is  a  member  of  the  California  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  has 
been  its  recording  secretary  for  the  past  twelve  years. 

April  30,  1867,  he  was  married  to  Celia  Hixon,  who  died  in 
San  Francisco  March  19,  1898.  On  June  27,  1906,  he  was  mar- 
ried in  San  Francisco,  to  Caroline  B.  Cheever,  of  that  city. 

He  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business. 


*Francis  Hunt  Holmes 

Son  of  Hiram  Holmes,  was  born  January  12,  1839,  in  Williams- 
burg, Mass.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Williston  Seminary. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '62  during  its  Freshman  and 
Sophomore  years. 


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October  n,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  Fifty-second  Massachusetts 
Infantry,  was  made  Corporal,  and  was  one  of  the  Color  Guard. 
He  was  mustered  out  August  14,  1863,  reenlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  Second  Massachusetts  Cavalry  in  February,  1865,  and  was 
mustered  out  in  August  of  the  same  year. 

Before  entering  our  class,  he  taught  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and 
in  North  Adams  and  Conway,  Mass.  He  joined  '68  in  Sep- 
tember, 1866,  had  Phi  Beta  Kappa  rank  on  the  Junior  Appoint- 
ment List,  but  left  the  class  about  six  weeks  before  graduation. 

After  leaving  college  he  was  employed  mostly  as  private  tutor 
or  in  private  schools  in  Philadelphia.  For  one  year  he  was  in 
the  editorial  department  of  the  Philadelphia  Press. 

Holmes  was  married  November  26,  1871,  to  Carrie  B.  Pilling 
of  Philadelphia. 

Pie  died  May  26,  1882,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at 
Williamsburg;,  Mass. 


John  Robb  Holmes 

Son  of  Robert  and  Charlotte  (Powell)  Holmes.  His  father's  ancestors 
came  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  his  mother's  from  Scotland. 

John  R.  Holmes  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  June  18,  1845, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  City  University  of  St.  Louis. 
When  he  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year,  he  was 
already  one  of  the  most  prominent  boating  men  in  '68,  having 
rowed  on  the  Varuna  crew  in  the  fall  races  of  1865  and  in  the 
University  shell  in  the  Harbor  Races. 

Returning  to  St.  Louis,  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and 
by  close  attention  to  work  and  good  judgment  became  one  of 
the  substantial  business  men  of  the  city.  Later  for  about  twenty 
years  he  was  engaged  in  zinc  mining. 

Soon  after  1894  he  removed  to  Joplin,  Mo.  In  the  year  1900 
he  was  nominated  for  Congress  by  the  Republicans  of  the  15th 
Missouri  Congressional  District,  but  was  not  elected.  In  1908 
he  was  chosen  by  the  State  Convention  one  of  the  four  Delegates 
at  Large  to  the  Republican  National  Convention. 
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In  19 1 3  he  went  to  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  is  now  in  business 
in  Southern  California  with  residence  in  Pasadena. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Secretary,  dated  June  7,  1895,  he  wrote:  "I 
am  as  devoted  to  Yale  as  ever,  and  have  always  regretted  my 
inability  to  attend  any  of  our  class  reunions,  but  my  heart  has 
always  been  with  you." 

He  was  married  September  28,  1873,  to  Miss  Potwin,  at  Zanes- 
ville,  Ohio,  and  has  two  sons :  Robert  Potwin,  born  July  21,  1875, 


and  John  Robb,  Jr.,  born  July  5,  1877,  both  at  Zanesville.  His 
son  Robert  is  married,  and  is  in  business  in  Los  Angeles.  His 
son  John  for  the  past  eleven  years  has  been  an  invalid,  living 
with  his  mother  in  Pasadena. 


Edward  Montague  Hotchkiss 

Son  of  Charles  P>enham  and  Elizabeth  E.  Hotchkiss,  was  born 
March  20,  1847,  in  Xaugatuck,  Conn.,  and  was  prepared  t"<>r 
college  at  the  Collegiate  Institute,  Matawan,  N.  J.  He  left  the 
chiss  in  [866,  and  has  since  been  engaged  in  business. 


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He  was  for  two  years  with  Newel]  Brothers,  button  manu- 
facturers, in  Springfield,  Mass.  In  1868  he  became  Treasurer 
of  the  Tomlinson  Spring  Company,  Xevvark,  N.  J.,  holding  this 

position  till  he  retired  from  business  in  1903. 

Since  191 1  he  has  been  connected  with  the  Department  of 
Labor,  State  of  New  Jersey,  with  headquarters  at  Newark. 

On  September  21,  1882,  he  was  married  to  Emma  Louise 
Canfield  of  Newark,  and  now  resides  at  189  Clinton  Avenue  in 
that  city. 


*Henry  Marshall  Howe 

Son  of  Hon.  Thomas  M.  Howe,  born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  May 
10,  1846,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Western  University  in 
that  city.  He  left  the  class  in  April,  1866,  on  account  of  ill 
health. 

The  winter  of  1866-67  he  spent  in  Europe,  with  a  brother  and 
sister,  seeking-  the  restoration  of  his  health.  After  his  return, 
illness  prevented  his  engaging  in  any  business  or  returning  to 
college,  but  he  undertook  a  systematic  course  of  reading,  which 
he  kept  up  as  long  as  his  strength  allowed.  The  two  following 
winters  he  passed  in  Florida,  hoping  for  some  benefit  from 
change  of  climate,  but  he  gradually  grew  worse  and  died  at  noon 
on  the  first  day  of  January,  1870. 


Chauncy  Alonzo  Jacobs 

Son  of  Dr.  Horace  Jacobs,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Mass., 
November  1,  1843,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Josiah  Clark, 
at  Northampton,  Mass.  He  joined  the  class  in  January,  1865, 
and  left  it  in  March  following. 

After  leaving  college  he  studied  medicine,  in  part  with  his 
father  at  Springfield,  and  engaged  in  practice  for  a  time  in  that 
city,  but  soon  went  into  business.  For  many  years  he  has  been 
at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Jacobs,  Whitcomb  &  Co.,  fancy  goods, 
92  Federal  Street,  Boston. 

Dr.  Chauncy  Alonzo  Jacobs  resides  at  92  Columbia  Street, 
Brookline,  Mass. 


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♦William  Bard  Capron  Jennings 

Son  of  John  Freeman  and  Ellen  C.  Jennings,  was  born  in 
Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  September  17,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  by  William  McGeorge  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  He  was 
a  member  of  '67  till  the  close  of  the  first  term  of  Sophomore 
year.  He  entered  the  Class  of  '68  in  May,  1865,  and  was  with 
the  class  till  July,  1868,  but  did  not  receive  his  degree. 

After  leaving  college  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in  Detroit. 
and  subsequently  in  New  York  City.  He  died  of  apoplexy  at 
his  mother's  home  in  Detroit,  April  5,  1881. 


*Miller  Ketchum 

Son  of  Morris  and  Margaret  (Miller)  Ketchum.  His  father  was  ;•• 
banker,  of  New  York  City;  his  mother  was  daughter  of  Judge  Sylvanus 
Miller  of  Long  Island. 

Miller  Ketchum  was  born  in  Westport,  Conn.,  April  14,  [846, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Edwards  Place  School, 
Stockbridge,   Mass.     He  left  the  class   during  Freshman   year. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKKTCHES NON-GRADUATES  34  J 

and  was  a  banker  and  broker  for  several  years  in  Savannah,  Ga., 
and  later  in  New  York  City.  He  was  also  especially  interested 
in  farming. 

In  1868  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  W.  Coffin  of  New  York 
City,  and  had  two  children :  George  Ketchum,  now  in  business 
in  New  York  City,  at  35  Nassau  Street;  and  Elizabeth  C. 
Ketchum,  now  Mrs.  J.  Tufton  Mason. 

Miller  Ketchum  died  June  21,  1892,  at  Westport. 

*William  Bergh  Kip 

Son  of  Henry  James  and  Sarah  Ann  (Bergh)  Kip,  and  direct  descend- 
ant in  the  eighth  generation  of  Hendrick  Kip  who  came  from  Holland 
to  New  Amsterdam  about  1650.  The  family  name  is  still  preserved  locally 
in  "Kip's  Bay,"  which  is  a  part  of  the  East  River  washing  Man- 
hattan Island.  In  this  locality  are  still  found  a  Kip's  Bay  Brewery,  a 
Kip's  Bay  Iron  Works,  a  Kip's  Bay  Day  Nursery,  a  Kip's  Bay  Market,  a 
Kip's  Bay  Realty  Company. 

William  B.  Kip  was  born  in  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  October  15, 
1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Peekskill  Academy. 
He  left  the  class  in  December,  1864,  and  was  graduated  at  the 
Albany  Law  School  in  1867.  He  practiced  law  for  a  short  time, 
but  soon  gave  it  up  and  spent  much  time  improving  his  estate  at 
Rhinebeck  on  the  Hudson,  an  ancestral  home  of  the  Kip  family 
since  1686,  the  Indian  deed  of  which  is  still  in  the  possession  of 
his  descendants.  He  was  Vice-President  of  the  Rhinebeck  Sav- 
ings Bank,  Supervisor  of  the  village,  and  interested  generally  in 
local  politics. 

December  21,  1871,  he  was  married  in  New  York  City  to  Sarah 
Ann  Spies,  daughter  of  Adam  W.  Spies,  a  New  York  merchant, 
and  had  four  children :  Florence  Adele,  born  November  11,  1872  ; 
Henry  Spies,  born  June  29,  1874;  William  Ruloff,  born  March 
18,  1876;  Garrett  Bergh,  born  December  7,  1877. 

Florence  Adele  was  married  to  Arthur  C.  Humbert,  and  died 
in  October,  1895. 

Henry  Spies  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  with  the  Class  of 
'96  and  from  the  New  York  Law  School  in  1901.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and  is  at  present  a  member 
of  the  banking  house  of  Butler,  Herrick  &  Kip,  7  Wall  Street. 
During  the  Spanish-American  War  he  served  as  First  Lieutenant 


342  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

and  Battalion  Adjutant  of  the  Ninth  New  York  Volunteers. 
October  25,  1902,  he  was  married  to  Frances  Coster  Jones,  and 
has  one  son,  William  Bergh  Kip,  2d,  born  February  11,  1905. 

William  Ruloff  entered  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School  in  1894. 
but  left  in  Freshman  year  to  take  up  painting  and  art  in  New 
York  and  Paris.  He  is  now  interested  in  aviation  and  airships. 
On  January  21,  1914,  he  was  married  in  New  York  City  to 
Mildred  Frothingtiam  Corwin,  daughter  of  George  Homan  Cor- 
win  of  Greenport,  L.  I. 

Garrett  Bergh  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  the  Class 
of  1901,  studied  law,  and  entered  the  stock  brokerage  business. 
He  is  now  Treasurer  of  the  Herrick  Engine  Company,  74  Broad- 
way, New  York  City.  April  25,  1903,  he  was  married  to  Carola 
de  Peyster,  and  has  one  daughter,  Carola  de  Peyster  Kip,  born 
April  26,  1904. 

William  Bergh  Kip,  who  was  never  a  very  strong  man,  died 
of  heart  failure,  August  16,  1888,  and  was  buried  in  the  family 
plot  in  the  Rhinebeck  cemetery.  Mrs.  Kip  was  again  married  to 
John  Blake  Baker  of  New  York  City.     She  died  July  8,  1910. 

*Moses  Hamilton  Kittredge 

Son  of  Moses  and  Caroline  (Lord)  Kittredge,  was  born  in  St. 
Johnsbury,  Vt.,  January  30,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He  left  the  Class  of  '67,  Amherst 
College,  and  entered  the  Class  of  '68  at  Yale  in  January,  1865, 
remaining  with  it  one  term. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  was  employed  for  about  two  years  in  a 
wholesale  boot  and  shoe  store  in  New  York  City.  In  1867  he 
went  to  Michigan  as  an  agent  for  the  firm,  and  in  1871  established 
a  shoe  store  at  Bay  City,  Mich.,  in  connection  with  an  older 
brother. 

He  died,  June  21,  1903,  in  New  York  City. 

John  Lillie 

Son  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  E.  Lillie,  was  born  December  11,  1845. 
in  Lebanon,  Ohio,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Acad- 
emy, Andover.  He  left  the  class  in  July,  1865,  and  was  a  member 
of  '69  two  terms. 


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After  leaving  college,  he  traveled  in  Europe  and  in  the  Southern 
States.  In  1875  he  was  assistant  editor  of  the  Galaxy,  and 
editor  in  charge  of  the  American  Builder,  a  monthly  magazine 
devoted  to  architecture  and  ship-building.  He  was  also  for  some 
years  London  editor  of  Harper's  Magazine.  In  191 3  he  had 
lived  thirty-seven  years  in  London,  England,  and  at  that  time  his 
residence  was  Ivy  Hall,  Petersham  Road,  Richmond,  Surrey. 


*  James  Sherman  Loomis 

Son  of  James  Chaffee  Loomis,  was  born  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
May  8,  1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hartford  High 
School. 

No  event  in  our  course  made  a  deeper  impression  on  the  class 
than  the  death  of  Loomis  in  our  Senior  year.  He  was  taken  ill 
in  the  lecture  room  October  7.  His  illness  proved  to  be  typhoid 
fever,  from  which  he  died  Tuesday,  October  22.  He  was  buried 
in  the  cemetery  in  Bridgeport.  The  whole  class  attended  his 
funeral,  and  no  one  of  us  will  ever  forget  the  afternoon  when, 
just  as  the  sun  was  sinking  in  the  west,  we  stood  around  his  open 
grave  and  left  him  to  sleep  his  last  sleep. 


*William  Lyman  Mason 

Son  of  Timothy  B.  and  Abigail  (Hall)  Mason.  His  father  was  born 
in  1801  at  Medfield,  Mass.,  where  all  his  paternal  ancestors  were  born 
as  far  back  as  Thomas  Mason,  one  of  the  founders  of  Medfield  in  1650. 
This  Thomas  was  son  of  Robert  Mason,,  who  came  to  Dedham,  Mass., 
with  one  of  John  Winthrop's  companies  in  1630.  The  father  of  our 
classmate  was  a  brother  of  Dr.  Lowell  Mason,  "the  father  of  church 
music,"  and  collaborated  with  him  in  arranging  and  publishing  several 
books  of  church  music. 

William  L.  Mason  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  January  21, 
1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
He  left  the  Class  of  '68  during  the  last  term  of  Sophomore 
year  and  returned  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  employed  as 
cashier  in  the  dry  goods  house  of  L.  C.  Hopkins  &  Company  for 
five  years.     In  1873  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  was  connected 


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THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


with  the  house  of  John  D.  Gardiner  &  Company  and  their  suc- 
cessors for  seventeen  years.  In  1891  he  went  to  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  and  took  a  position  as  Auditor  and  Comptroller  of  the 
Villard  Syndicate,  which  owned  and  operated  the  electric  railway 
and  lighting-  system  of  that  city.  He  remained  with  this  com- 
pany till  January,  1898,  when  he  resigned  the  position  and  went 
to  Washington,  where  he  accepted  a  government  position  in  the 
office  of  the  Auditor  of  the  War  Department,  which  he  retained 
until  his  death,  October  12,  1909. 


Mason  was  a  member  of  the  District  of  Columbia  Society  of 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and  of  the  New  York  City 
Society  of  the  Order  of  Founders  and  Patriots  of  America,  and 
for  a  time  was  genealogist  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in 
the  State  of  Wisconsin.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Apollo 
Musical  Club  of  Chicago  for  many  years,  and  wrote  songs,  both 
words  and  music.  His  last  piece,  "A  Song  in  the  Night,"  has 
been  especially  commended.  In  1891  he  published  a  genealogical 
work  entitled  "A  Record  of  the  Descendants  of  Robert  Mason 
of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts." 


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June  5,  1878,  he  was  married  to  Puella  Follett  Hall  of  Cin- 
cinnati, daughter  of  Rev.  Leverett  and  Sarah  (Lord)  Hall. 

One  who  knew  him  best  of  all  has  said  of  him :  "His  motto 
was  love  of  God  and  his  fellow-men.  No  one  ever  asked  him  for 
help  who  did  not  receive  all  that  he  could  afford  to  give.  He 
was  charitable  with  his  means,  his  words,  and  his  thought." 


*William  King  Miller 

Son  of  Hon.  Josiah  T.  Miller,  was  born  in  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y., 
September  16,  1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hudson 
River  Institute,  Claverack,  N.  Y. 

Miller  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the  first  term  of  Sophomore 
year,  and  afterward  entered  Hobart  College,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1869.  He  studied  law  and  located  in  Omaha,  Neb., 
where  he  died  December  20,  1884. 

Miller  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at  Hobart. 


*Claiborne  Hooper  Phillips 

Son  of  William  Phillips,  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  July  1 1, 
1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  A.  B.  Hoge  of  that  city. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  class  one  year. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  returned  to  Nashville  and  engaged  in 
business,  becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Phillips,  Jackson  & 
Company,  the  largest  wholesale  grocery  house  in  the  state.  He 
was  elected  Mayor  of  Nashville  and  served  one  term,  but  declined 
a  renomination.  In  the  fall  of  1886  he  went  with  a  party  of 
friends  on  a  hunting  trip  to  Dakota,  and  while  there  was  acci- 
dentally killed. 

He  was  married  to  Mary  Gentry,  in  Edgefield,  Tenn.,  July  8, 
1869,  and  nad  a  son,  William  Walter  Phillips,  born  May  8,  1870. 


346  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


George  White  Potter 

Son  of  Peter  White  and  Almeda  (Underwood)  Potter.  Peter  White 
Potter,  a  son  of  Jeremiah  Potter,  a  sea  captain  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  went 
west  in  1845  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  counted  among  the  most 
important  citizens  of  the  city  of  Keokuk,  Iowa.  In  the  early  years  of  the 
State  of  Iowa,  numerous  industrious  Hollanders  emigrated  to  Iowa, 
landing  at  Keokuk  with  their  baggage  on  the  river  boats.  Many  located 
at  Pella  and  other  points.  Being  unacquainted  with  the  vernacular  of  this 
country,  they  found  a  most  valuable  friend  in  Mr.  Potter,  who  spoke 
Holland  Dutch  fluently,  having  learned  it  in  his  youth.  Becoming  their 
interpreter,  he  rendered  them  valuable  aid  in  securing  homes  in  Iowa. 

Mrs.  Peter  White  Potter  was  daughter  of  Artch  Underwood.  Her 
home  in  Keokuk  was  full  of  historic  memories.  Professor  Thacher  of 
Yale  had  a  brother  who  was  pastor  of  the  Keokuk  church.  It  was  a 
letter  of  membership  from  his  church  that  George  White  Potter  carried 
with  him  when  he  left  home  for  Yale. 

George  W.  Potter  was  born  July  26,  1843,  in  Norwich,  Che- 
nango County,  N.  Y.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School.  He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of 
Freshman  year. 


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For  the  first  ten  years  after  leaving  Yale,  George  White  Potter 
resided  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  engaged  as  custom  house 
clerk  for  a  large  importing  house.  He  then  went  west  to  Iowa 
in  poor  health,  but  recovered  in  about  a  year  sufficiently  to  take 
a  position  as  manager  of  a  paper  in  Fort  Madison,  Iowa. 
Removing  to  Burlington,  he  was  on  the  Daily  Hawk  eye  for 
about  thirteen  years  and  later  on  the  Gazette.  Recently  he  has 
been  doing  some  work  also  for  a  real  estate  and  insurance  office 
in  Burlington. 

In  a  recent  letter  he  expresses  what  we  all  feel : 

"I  am  saddened  greatly  as  I  read  of  the  passing  of  Berry  and  Trimble, 
and  as  I  look  upon  their  youthful  faces  in  the  photograph  of  my  class 
at  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  it  casts  a  deep  shade  of  sadness  over 
the  otherwise  delightful  dream  of  the  past.  I  have  found  great  satis- 
faction in  the  study  of  Browning  in  my  leisure  moments  during  the  last 
sixteen  years.  He  helps  us  to  look  into  the  beyond  which  will  come  to 
us  all." 

George  White  Potter  was  married  in  1877  to  Sadie  E.  Havens 
of  Highland  Falls,  N.  Y.,  daughter  of  David  Highland  Havens, 
one  of  the  early  steamboat  captains  on  the  Hudson.  Their  only 
child,  a  little  girl,  died  many  years  ago.  Mrs.  George  W. 
Potter's  mother  was  Nancy  Buckingham,  daughter  of  John  Buck- 
ingham, a  relative  of  Governor  Buckingham  of  Connecticut. 


*  Robert  Livingston  Reade 

Son  of  Robert  Reade,  was  born  September  5,  1846,  in  Auburn, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  Rev.  B.  W.  Dwight  of 
New  York  City.  He  left  '68  in  April,  1866,  and  was  graduated 
with  the  Class  of  '69. 

His  biographical  sketch  is  given  in  the  '69  class  book. 


*Isaac  Gardner  Reed 

Son  of  Isaac  Reed,  was  born  in  Acton,  Mass.,  July  31,  1846, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.  He 
left  the  class  in  December,  1865,  and  was  afterwards  connected 
with  '69  one  term. 


348  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Reed  studied  law  with  Messrs.  Ranney  &  Morse,  and  practiced 
in  Boston  for  ten  years,  making  his  home  at  West  Acton.  In 
1880  he  moved  west,  where  he  continued  his  law  practice  till  a 
short  time  before  his  death. 

In  December,  1868,  he  was  married  to  Jennie  M.  Broatch  in 
Middletown,  Conn.,  and  had  three  children :  Robert  Gardner, 
born  May  17,  1869;  Arthur  Livingston,  born  January  5,  1873; 
Mabel  Atherton,  born  February  27,  1874. 

Isaac  Gardner  Reed  died  in  West  Acton,  July  10,  1900,  at  the 
home  of  his  son  Robert. 


*John  Connelly  Reeves 

Son  of  Willis  Long  and  Caroline  (Wilson)  Reeves.  His  father  was  a 
farmer,  and  was  for  a  number  of  years  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  and  County 
Courts  of  Todd  County,  Kentucky. 

John  C.  Reeves  was  born  in  Elkton,  Ky.,  April  8,  1846,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Elkton  Academy.  He  left  the  class 
before  the  close  of  the  first  term. 

After  leaving  college  he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of  law, 
and  was  licensed  to  practice  in  Elkton,  his  native  town.  He  was 
considered  a  more  showy  and  brilliant  man  than  his  brother, 
Willis  L.  Reeves  of  the  Class  of  '65  in  Yale.  He  was  a  member 
of  a  leading  firm  of  lawyers  in  Elkton,  while  his  brother  Willis 
(afterward  Judge  Reeves)  was  a  member  of  another  firm,  and 
they  were  frequently  opposed  in  litigation.  Reeves  was  above 
six  feet  tall,  aggressive,  self-confident,  and  popular,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  already  regarded  as  an  able  and  accom- 
plished lawyer. 

An  attack  of  typhoid  fever  in  the  spring  of  1868  prostrated 
him  to  such  an  extent  that  he  never  fully  recovered.  He  died 
August  16,  1868. 


*James  Thomas  Rizer 

Son  of  Edward  Richard  and  Mary  Barclay  (Harrison)  Rizer, 
was  born  February  19,  1846,  in  Franklin,  Ky.  He  was  the  eldest 
•  >f  twelve  children,  eleven  of  whom  lived  to  be  more  than  thirty 


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years  old.  Rizer  and  a  brother  who  died  in  infancy  were  the  only 
boys  in  the  family.  He  was  prepared  for  college  by  James  S. 
Fall  of  Russellville,  and  was  a  member  of  the  class  during-  Fresh- 
man year. 

After  graduating  in  medicine  from  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical 
College  in  New  York  City  in  1868,  Dr.  Rizer  located  in  Boone- 
ville,  Mo.,  where  he  practiced  for  something  over  two  years ;  but 
owing  to  the  ill-health  of  his  father,  he  returned  to  Russellville  to 
assist  in  the  management  of  a  shoe  business  which  his  father 
conducted  at  that  time.  Subsequently  he  was  employed  by  a 
large  jobbing  shoe  house  of  Cincinnati  as  a  traveling  salesman, 
and  remained  with  them  until  his  death,  November  17,  1875.  He 
was  eminently  successful  in  this  undertaking,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  he  was  receiving  a  very  large  salary  for  one  with  his 
experience. 

Rizer  was  a  man  with  strong  Southern  sympathies  during  the 
Civil  War,  and  in  the  exciting  days  following  the  assassination 
of  Lincoln  he  was  at  times  not  quite  as  temperate  in  speech  as 
prudence  demanded ;  but  all  admired  him  for  his  courage,  and 
his  withdrawal  from  the  class  caused  universal  regret. 

He  was  married  to  Susan  T.  Mayo,  of  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
September  1,  1869.  Four  children  were  born  of  this  union : 
John  Mayo,  June  29,  1870;  James  T.,  Jr.,  September  25,  1871 ; 
Edwin  R.,  November  28,  1873 ;  Mary  E.,  October  30,  1875. 
James  T.  died  when  only  about  one  year  old.  John  Mayo  lives  in 
Columbus,  Ohio;  Edwin  R.,  in  New  York  City;  and  Mary  E., 
who  married  a  Mr.  Murphy,  lives  in  Corning,  Ohio. 


Howell  Williams  Robert 

Son  of  Christopher  Rhinelander  Robert,  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  December  15,  1844,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover. 

He  left  the  class  at  the  end  of  the  first  term  of  Junior  year, 
and  graduated  with  '6g. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '69  class  book. 


35°  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Frederick  William  Russell 

Son  of  Major  Ira  and  Roannah  (Greenwood)  Russell,  was 
born  January  29,  1845,  in  Winchendon,  Mass.,  and  was  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Natick  High  School.  He  left  the  class  at  the 
close  of  Sophomore  year,  and  was  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
'69  at  Harvard. 

After  teaching  a  few  months  at  Winchendon,  he  commenced 
the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Medical  Department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  New  York,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  1870,  and  at  once  began  practice  at  Winchendon,  being  asso- 
ciated with  his  father.  For  many  years  he  was  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  the  Highland  Family  Home,  for  the  treatment  of 
nervous  and  mental  diseases,  of  which  for  about  twenty-five 
years  he  was  the  sole  owner.  He  also  served  the  town  of 
Winchendon  as  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners,  and  was  President 
of  the  Cooperative  Bank  and  of  the  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Company. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society, 
of  the  Boston  Society  of  Neurology,  and  of  the  Society  of  Medical 
Superintendents  of  Insane  Hospitals. 

Dr.  Russell  removed  from  Winchendon  to  Dallas,  Texas,  in 
1910,  to  make  his  home  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Hall. 

June  II,  1872,  he  was  married,  at  Lancaster,  Mass.,  to  Caroline 
Emily,  daughter  of  Rev.  Abijah  P.  and  Caroline  H.  Marvin. 
Children :  Rowena  Mary,  born  February  6,  1881 ;  Dorothea 
Marvin,  born  June  9,  1884,  died  December  9,  1889;  Walter 
Marvin,  born  April  12,  1887. 

Rowena  Mary  studied  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College  in  1898-99; 
married  Dr.  F.  J.  Hall  of  Dallas,  Texas,  August  28,  1901.  Chil- 
dren: William  Russell,  born  August  11,  1903;  Franklin  Marvin, 
born  May  26,  1905;    Richard  Walter,  born  December  18,   1906. 


*  Edwin  Dodge  Ryan 

Son  of  John  W.  Ryan,  was  born  in  Erie,  Pa.,  May  6,  1846,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Erie  Academy.  He  died  at  his 
home  in  Erie,  September  6,  1865.     Though  with  us  only  one  year, 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  35  I 

we  remember  him  as  a  pleasant  companion  and  a  man  whose 
character  was  beyond  reproach. 


William  Russell  Scarritt 

Son  of  Russell  Scarritt,  was  born  July  14,  1846,  at  Alton,  111., 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  City  University,  St.  Louis. 
He  left  the  class  in  December,  1865,  entered  Amherst,  and  gradu- 
ated with  the  Class  of  '69.  Soon  after  he  entered  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City,  where  he  completed  the 
course  of  study  in  1872. 

He  was  ordained  in  1877,  and  nas  since  been  actively  engaged 
in  the  ministry.  From  1885  to  1894  he  was  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Marshalltown,  Iowa,  of  the  Union  (Inde- 
pendent) Church  at  Longwood,  111.,  and  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Morgan  Park,  111.  After  three  years  of  literary  work, 
he  entered  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  became  Assistant  Minister 
of  St.  George's  Church  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.  In  1904  he  went  to 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  literary  work  for 
three  years,  when  he  became  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.  In  1908  he  became  Rector  of  St.  Stephen's 
Parish  in  Millidgeville,  Ga. 

In  1880  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  Lane 
University. 

*Joseph  Henry  Sears 

Son  of  David  and  Jane  (Warren)  Sears,  was  born  at  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  October  1,  1836,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover.  Before  entering  college  he  served  in  Co.  G 
of  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry  in  Virginia.  He 
left  the  class  at  the  close  of  Freshman  year. 

For  four  years  he  was  Superintendent  of  Education  for  Dallas 
County,  Ala.,  residing  at  Selma.  Later  he  was  traveling  sales- 
man for  farm  machinery  for  a  St.  Louis  firm,  his  territory  being 
in  the  State  of  Texas.  On  October  4,  1905,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  Soldiers'  Home  in  Chelsea,  from  which  he  was  discharged 
April  8,  19 1 3,  and  went  to  the  Mountain  Branch  of  the  National 
Home  for  Disabled  Volunteer  Soldiers  at  Johnson  City,  Tenn. 


35 2  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

On  June  12,  19 14,  he  was  re-admitted  to  the  Soldiers'  Home 
at  Chelsea.  He  died  at  Chelsea  July  28,  19 14,  and  was  buried 
in  Vine  Hill  Cemetery,  at  Plymouth. 

Sears  was  married  in  April,   1871,  in  Ocala,  Fla.,  to  Emily 
C.  Stowe  of  New  Haven. 


George  Baldwin  Selden 

Son  of  Judge  Henry  R.  Selden,  was  born  September  14,  [846, 
in  Clarkson,  N.  Y.,  and  came  to  Yale  in  July,  1865,  from  the 
University  of  Rochester.  He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  Junior 
year  to  visit  Europe.  After  his  return  he  spent  a  few  months 
at  the  Sheffield  Scientific  School,  and  then  commenced  the  study 
of  law  at  Rochester,  in  the  office  of  his  father.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  Bar  at  Rochester  in  November,  1871,  and  has  been  a  suc- 
cessful lawyer,  his  specialty  being  patent  law. 

When  a  small  boy  he  became  interested  in  road  locomotion. 
As  early  as  1872  he  was  considering  steam  as  a  means  to  this  end, 
but  rejected  it.  From  his  research  he  learned  of  the  attempt  of 
Lenoir  and  others  to  build  vehicles  using  compressed  gas  and 
heavy  non-compression  engines.  He  also  saw  the  work  of  Bray- 
ton,  who  failed  to  drive  a  street-car  but  succeeded  in  operating 
motor  boats  with  his  engine,  using  kerosene  oil  as  fuel.  Clearly 
more  power  and  less  weight  were  needed.  Acting  on  these  ideas, 
he  started  work  on  a  six-cylinder  engine  of  the  two-cycle  type. 
doing  away  with  the  heavy  construction  of  the  others  and  running 
at  a  speed  never  before  attempted.  Although  too  poor  to  build 
a  vehicle,  his  experiments  showed  that  he  had  succeeded.  By  an 
important  modification  of  Brayton's  engine,  he  got  higher  pres- 
sure in  his  cylinders. 

May  8,  1879,  he  applied  for  a  patent,  covering  all  the  essential 
features  in  the  modern  automobile.  His  work  had  shown  him 
what  he  needed. 

November  5,  1895,  the  patent  was  issued.  Being  not  only  a 
gifted  inventor,  but  a  very  able  attorney  as  well,  and  conducting 
his  own  application,  the  issue  of  the  patent  was  timed  so  that 
when  the  patent  was  issued,  the  world  had  grown  up  to  an  appre- 
ciation of  its  need  for  it,  principally  through  development  of  the 
art  in  Europe. 


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The  suit  which  followed  to  establish  the  validity  of  this  patent 
will  stand  forever  as  one  of  the  most  noted  in  all  the  history  of 
patent  jurisprudence.  Judge  Hough,  who  tried  it,  decided  in 
Seidell's  favor.  The  decision  which  he  rendered  was  a  clear 
exposition  of  the  entire  case  from  the  first,  and  placed  Selden 
among  the  great  inventors  of  the  world's  history.  This  decision 
was  reviewed  by  the  United  States  Court  of  Appeals.  While  by 
this   decision   credit   was   still   given   to   Selden   as   the   original 


inventor  of  the  automobile,  Judge  Hough  was  overruled  in  the 
matter  of  infringement  of  the  particular  feature  over  which  the 
case  was  contested.  A  very  large  element  of  the  legal  profession 
versed  in  patent  jurisprudence  still  accept  the  decision  of  Judge 
Hough  as  more  correctly  analyzing  the  facts  of  a  very  compli- 
cated case  and  from  them  basing  a  finding  which  ought  in  strict 
justice  to  have  been  sustained.  It  is  certainly  true  that  the  name 
of  Selden  was  for  years  better  known  than  any  other  in  the 
automobile  industry.  Will  not  history  accord  him  the  credit  of 
inventing  the  automobile  as  fully  as  it  accords  to  Hudson  the 
invention  of  the  steamboat? 
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354  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

On  December  14,  187 1,  he  was  married  to  Clara  D.  Woodruff 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  has  four  children :  Henry  R.  Selden, 
named  from  his  distinguished  grandfather;  George  Baldwin 
Selden,  Jr. ;  Sayre  S.  Selden;  and  Louise  Selden,  who  is  the  wife 
of  Charles  Carey. 


Myron  Charles  Simkins 

Son  of  Aaron  Simkins  of  Algansee,  Mich.,  and  brother  of  Rev.  William 
H.  Simkins  of  Freemont,  Ind. 

Myron  C.  Simkins  was  born  March  14,  1846,  in  Algansee,  and 
was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Hudson  River  Institute,  Claverack, 
N.  Y.  He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the  first  term  of  Sopho- 
more year. 

After  leaving  Yale,  he  taught  for  some  years  in  Coldwater, 
Mich.,  and  was  much  in  advance  of  the  times  in  his  theories  of 
education.  He  introduced  new  methods,  sought  to  interest  his 
pupils  in  their  studies,  and  organized  among  them  a  literary 
union.  Later  he  was  agent  for  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  with  headquarters  at  Omaha,  Neb.  In  1897 
he  published  "Betsy  Gaskins,"  under  the  nom  dc  plume  of 
W.  I.  Hood. 

He  is  married  and  has  been  for  several  years  a  resident  of 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


*George  King  Sistare 

His  father,  George  King  Sistare,  born  in  New  London.  Conn.,  July  0, 
1809,  was  a  descendant  from  Gabriel  Sistare,  an  admiral  in  the  Spanish 
Navy,  who  settled  in  New  London  about  1682.  His  mother  was  Sarah 
Vreeland  (Cole)  Sistare  of  New  York  City,  a  descendant  of  the  Wester- 
velts  who  had  come  from  Holland  with  a  patent  from  the  Dutch  King  to 
ten  thousand  acres  of  land  in  New  Jersey,  directly  opposite  New  York 
City. 

George  K.  Sistare  was  born  in  New  York  City,  November  5. 
1845,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
He  was  with  '67  for  a  short  time,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Class 
of  '68  till  April,  1865. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  355 

Upon  leaving  college,  he  entered  the  banking  house  of  his 
father,  which  had  been  established  in  1820.  After  his  father's 
death  in  1880,  he  continued  the  business  with  his  brother,  William 
H.  Sistare,  and  others,  as  G.  K.  Sistare's  Sons.  This  was  the 
leading  firm  in  the  country  in  handling  New  York  City  bonds. 
When  a  New  York  bond  sale  offered  the  opportunity,  the  Sistare 
firm  usually  outbid  all  competitors  and  took  the  entire  issue.  It 
became  interested  also  in  the  reorganizing  of  small  railroads. 
The  firm  had  branch  offices  in  Philadelphia,  Baltimore,  Washing- 
ton, and  Detroit.  In  1890  the  discovery  of  a  very  large  defalca- 
tion and  embezzlement  in  the  Philadelphia  office  compelled  the 
firm  to  announce  suspension,  and  the  demands  of  its  creditors 
were  such  that  it  could  not  recover,  and  the  firm  went  down. 

George  K.  Sistare  withdrew  from  the  firm  in  1886,  when  it  was 
at  the  height  of  its  prosperity.  He  went  to  Newburgh,  N.  Y., 
where  he  continued  to  reside  as  a  country  gentleman,  living  a 
rather  uneventful  life,  interesting  himself  in  stockbreeding  and 
horticulture. 

October  18,  1877,  he  was  married,  at  Trinity  Church,  Easton, 
Pa.,  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  J.  Elsegood,  Rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
East  New  York,  to  Mary  W.  Clemens,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  J. 
Breckenridge  Clemens,  of  Easton. 

Mrs.  Mary  Clemens  Sistare  died  at  Easton,  April  10,  1880,  and 
is  buried  in  Easton. 

George  K.  Sistare  died  in  New  York  City,  July  28,  1892. 
His  body  was  cremated  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  the  ashes  taken  to 
Easton  and  buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife. 


*John  Hampden  Thomas 

Son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Thomas  (Miami  University  1834),  Presi- 
dent of  Hanover  College  1849-54,  and  Professor  in  Lane  Theological 
Seminary  at  Cincinnati  1871-75.  His  grandfather,  Rev.  Thomas  Thomas, 
of  Welsh  descent,  who  was  graduated  from  Hoxton  Academy,  Lon- 
don, and  ordained  an  Independent  minister  in  Chelmsford,  England, 
emigrated  in  1818  to  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  and  labored  as  pastor  and  mis- 
sionary, till  his  death  at  Venice,  Ohio,  in  1831. 

John  H.  Thomas  was  born  in  Hamilton,  Butler  Co.,  Ohio,  May 
5,  1848,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  his  father  at  home.     At 


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YALE    COLLEGE 


Yale  he  showed  ability  in  writing"  and  speaking,  and  was  awarded 
a  third  prize  in  the  Brothers  Freshman  Prize  Debate.  At  the 
end  of  Freshman  year  he  left  college  and  engaged  in  the  book 
business  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  until  1884. 

Both  his  father  and  his  grandfather  were  Presbyterian  min- 
isters, and  he  always  had  a  strong  desire  to  preach  the  gospel. 
While  engaged  in  business  he  found  time  to  read  extensively,  and 
gained  a  thorough  acquaintance  with  church  history  and  govern- 


ment. He  kept  up  his  Greek  and  Latin,  and  studied  Hebrew 
under  the  direction  of  Professor  Harper  of  Yale,  and  September 
25,  1884,  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Dayton. 

June  3,  1885,  he  was  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Whitewater. 
Ind.,  and  installed  over  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Lawrence- 
burg,  the  church  with  which  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  began 
his  ministry.  He  removed  in  February,  1888,  to  Marion,  (Irani 
Co.,  Ind.,  where  he  remained  eight  years  in  charge  of  a  rapidly 
growing  church,  which  gave  him  abundance  of  work.  In  [897 
he  went  to  Oxford,  Ohio,  and  accepted  the  chair  of  Lecturer  on 
the  History  of  Christianity  in  the  Western  College  for  Women. 
During  the  year  1900-01  he  was  at  the  head  of  Oxford  College 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  357 

for  Women,  also  at  Oxford.  From  1901  to  1903  he  lectured  at 
schools  and  Chautauquas,  on  the  History  of  Christianity,  always 
a  favorite  subject  with  him.  In  the  fall  of  1903  he  accepted  the 
pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Langdon,  North  Dakota. 
[t  was  here,  and  while  actively  engaged  in  this  pastorate,  that  he 
died,  on  January  18,  1904,  of  pneumonia  contracted  as  a  result 
of  a  long',  cold  drive  after  an  evening  preaching  service  in  a  small 
town  at  some  distance  from  Langdon. 

In  1888  Hanover  College  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  M.A., 
and  in  1901  Miami  University  honored  him  with  the  degree  of 
D.D.  He  wrote  occasionally  for  the  press.  An  article  from  his 
pen,  entitled  "The  Characteristics  of  Hebrew  Poetry,"  appeared 
in  The  Presbyterian  Quarterly  for  August,  1888. 

He  was  married  to  Linda  S.  Rogers,  at  Dayton,  January  17, 
1878,  and  had  five  children,  two  of  whom,  a  son  and  a  daughter, 
died  in  infancy.  Those  living  are:  Elizabeth  Rogers,  born  in 
Dayton,  December  22,  1878;  Mary  May,  born  in  Dayton,  April 
23,  1880;    Isabel  Carr,  born  in  Lawrenceburg,  April  20,  1886. 

Elizabeth  was  married,  October  23,  1906,  to  C.  Harrington 
Davis  of  Newark,  Ohio. 

Mary  May  was  married,  March  10,  1910,  to  Horace  Pease 
Phillips  (son  of  Horace  Phillips,  Yale  '68),  who  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California  with  the  degree  of  B.S.  in  1903, 
and  now  resides  in  Reno,  Nev. 

Isabel  Carr  was  married,  June  28,  19 10,  to  Allen  Perry  Love  joy 
(Yale  College  1904)  of  Janesville,  Wis. 

Mrs.  John  H.  Thomas  resides  at  205  North  Eleventh  Street, 
Newark,  Ohio. 


*Henry  Saunders  Timmerman 

Son  of  Benjamin  Timmerman,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
September  22,  1843,  and  resided  there  until  his  death.  At  the 
commencement  of  the  Civil  War  he  offered  his  services  to  the 
Government,  but  was  not  accepted  on  account  of  physical  dis- 
ability. In  June,  1863,  he  volunteered  in  the  Seventy-fourth  New 
York  National  Guards,  a  Buffalo  regiment  ordered  into  the 
service  for  one  hundred  days.  With  this  regiment  he  was  in 
Pennsylvania  during  Lee's  invasion  and  the  battle  of  Gettysburg, 


35 8  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

and  narrowly  escaped  capture  by  the  Confederates  in  the  first 
part  of  the  raid.  After  Lee's  retreat,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
the  city  of  New  York  to  assist  in  quelling  the  riots  of  that  year. 

Timmerman  returned  home,  resumed  his  studies,  and  entered 
college  in  1864,  completing  his  Freshman  year.  The  Monday 
after  his  return  to  New  Haven  at  the  beginning  of  Sophomore 
year,  he  had  occasion  to  visit  New  York  and  return  by  the  night 
boat.  He  took  a  severe  cold,  which  developed  into  typhoid  fever, 
from  which  he  died  October  28,  1865. 

Timmerman  was  one  of  the  marked  men  of  the  class.  His 
scholarly  training  was  thorough,  and  despite  the  many  attractions 
of  student  life,  which  he  enjoyed  so  well,  his  name  stood  high 
on  the  lists  of  the  faculty.  He  was  distinguished  as  a  writer 
and  speaker.  No  one  of  us  entered  more  heartily  into  the  varied 
pursuits  of  true  college  life,  and  few  gave  greater  promise  of 
excellence. 

*  George  Whittlesey  Tyler 

Son  of  Rev.  Edward  Royal  and  Sarah  Ann  Tyler,  was  born 
in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  November  2,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for 
college  at  the  New  Haven  High  School. 

He  left  the  class  during  the  first  term ;  was  appointed  from 
Louisiana  to  the  United  States  Naval  Academy  October  3,  1864, 
from  which  he  was  graduated  June  10,  1868,  ranking  thirty-sixth 
in  a  class  of  eighty-one  members.  Among  his  classmates  at  the 
Naval  Academy  were  Colonel  R.  M.  Thompson  of  New  York, 
Commanders  Raymond  Perry  Rodgers,  Seaton  Schroeder,  YV.  J. 
Barnette,  Richard  Wainwright,  John  M.  Hawley,  and  Frederick 
Singer. 

Tyler  remained  in  the  United  States  Navy  till  his  death,  rising 
to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant.  He  served  on  the  Asiatic  Station, 
1868-70;  on  signal  duty  at  Washington,  1870;  on  Guerriere, 
European  Station,  1870-72;  Coast  Survey,  1873-75;  Franklin, 
1876-77;  Colorado,  1877-78;  Plymouth,  North  Atlantic,  1878; 
Naval  Academy,  1878-81  ;  Tennessee,  flagship,  North  Atlantic, 
1881-84;  Naval  Academy,  1884-88;  Mohican,  North  Pacific. 
1888-91 ;   Library  and  Naval  War  Records,  1892-96. 

He  died  in  Washington,  February  17,  1898,  leaving  a  widow 
and  one  daughter. 


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George  Martin  Upshur 

Son  of  Dr.  George  Martin  and  Priscilla  (Townsend)  Upshur.  His 
mother  was  daughter  of  Levin  Townsend  of  Snow  Hill,  Md.  A  dis- 
tinguished relative  of  his  was  Abel  P.  Upshur,  Secretary  of  State  in  the 
Cabinet  of  President  John  Tyler.  Among  his  ancestors  was  Sir  George 
Yeardley,  Governor  of  Virginia,  in  1620,  when  the  capital  was  at  James- 
town, and  who  organized  the  first  legislative  body  that  ever  met  on  the 
North  American  Continent;  another  was  John  Custis,  of  Northampton 
(then  Accomac)  County,  Va.,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  John  Custis  (the 
fifth  of  that  name)  who  was  the  first  husband  of  Martha  Washington, 
and  whose  granddaughter  married  Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee. 

The  Upshurs  first  settled  in  Virginia  about  1638.  The  first  immigrant 
was  Arthur  Upshur,  who  came  from  the  County  of  Essex,  England.  He 
was  the  father  of  Arthur,  who  was  the  father  of  Abel,  who  was  the 
father  of  John,  who  was  the  father  of  James,  who  was  the  father  of 
George  Martin,  who  was  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  all 
of  whom  except  the  first  and  the  last  named  were  born  in  Virginia. 

George  M.  Upshur  was  born  in  Snow  Hill,  Md.,  December 
14,  1847,  and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Union  Academy  in 
that  place.  He  entered  Yale  with  the  Freshman  Class,  but  left 
in  December,  1866,  and  returned  to  Snow  Hill.  There  he  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  E.  K.  Wilson,  who  was  afterwards 
United  States  Senator  from  Maryland.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Bar  in  1869  in  Snow  Hill,  where  he  successfully  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law,  and  became  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Upshur 
&  Purnell. 

In  January,  1874,  he  was  appointed  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
Examiner  (ex  officio  Superintendent)  of  the  public  schools  of 
Worcester  County,  Md.  In  the  fall  of  1887  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  of  the  Maryland  Legislature, 
and  was  chosen  Speaker  of  that  body. 

In  1892  he  removed  from  Snow  Hill  to  Baltimore,  where  he 
practiced  his  profession  until  1907,  and  that  year  returned  to 
Snow  Hill  where  he  has  since  been  practicing  law  with  his  son 
Franklin,  under  the  firm  name  of  Upshur  &  Upshur. 

He  was  one  of  the  Alternate  National  Commissioners  from 
Maryland  to  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago, 
receiving  his  commission  from  President  Harrison,  upon  the 
nomination  of  Governor  Jackson  of  Maryland.  In  1892  he  was 
a  Delegate  at  Large  from  Maryland  to  the  Democratic  National 


360  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Convention  at  Chicago,  which  nominated  Grover  Cleveland  for 
President,  and  made  the  motion  in  that  convention  to  make  the 
nomination  of  Mr.  Cleveland  unanimous.  In  1900  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  John  Walter  Smith  (now  United  States 
Senator)  President  of  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  of 
Baltimore  City  for  two  years.  In  1902  he  was  reappointed  to  the 
same  office  for  another  term  of  two  years,  and  served  until  the 
expiration  of  his  term.  In  1901  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Smith  a  Colonel  on  his  staff  and  held  that  office  for  four  years. 

He  was  married  June  II,  1873,  to  Emma  Franklin,  the 
daughter  of  Judge  John  R.  Franklin,  formerly  a  member  of  Con- 
gress and  at  that  time  one  of  the  Associate  Judges  of  the  First 
Judicial  Circuit  of  Maryland.     He  has  had  four  children : 

Priscilla,  born  May  5,  1874,  who  in  1905  married  Professor 
Harry  F.  Covington  of  Princeton  University. 

Franklin,  born  November  27,  1875,  who  first  entered  Johns 
Hopkins  University  and  then  went  to  Princeton,  entering  the 
Junior  Class,  and  graduating  in  1897,  then  studying  law  at  the 
University  of  Maryland,  graduating  in  1899,  becoming  Assistant 
State's  Attorney  of  Baltimore  under  State's  Attorney  Robert  M. 
McLane,  Jr.  (afterwards  Mayor  of  Baltimore).  He  was  married 
June  23,  1909,  at  Snow  Hill,  to  Ethelyn  Winder  Wilson,  daughter 
of  Ephraim  King  Wilson,  former  United  States  Senator  from 
Maryland,  and  has  one  child,  a  daughter,  Priscilla  Wilson  Upshur, 
born  November  11,  191 1. 

George  Martin,  born  January  5,  1878,  died  April  16,  1880. 

Emily  Franklin,  born  April  23,  1892. 

The  last  was  born  in  Baltimore,  the  others  in  Snow  Hill. 


*Albert  Waling  Van  Winkle 

Son  of  John  Waling  and  Margaret  Virginia  (MacCurdy)  Van  Winkle. 
His  father  was  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  of  Jacob  Waling 
Van  Winkle,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Horn,  Holland,  in  1636,  on 
the  ship  "King  David,"  and  purchased  and  settled  on  lands  at  Bergen, 
which  are  now  a  part  of  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  The  present  Van  Winkle 
Street  of  Jersey  City  was  once  a  part  of  the  Van  Winkle  farm.  His 
mother  was  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Priscilla  MacCurdy. 

Albert  W.  Van  Winkle  was  born  April  17,  1842,  and  was 
prepared  for  college  by  John  Grant,  Newark.     He  left  the  class 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES NON-GRADUATES  36 1 

during  the  first  term,  to  take  care  of  his  brother,  a  student  at 
Cambridge,  who  was  seriously  ill,  and  who  did  not  recover.  After 
his  brother's  death,  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1869. 

He  spent  one  year  in  a  law  office,  and  was  then  admitted  to  the 
Bar  in  New  York  City,  where  he  spent  his  life  busily  occupied  as 
an  attorney  and  counselor  at  law.  He  became  President  and 
Counsel  of  the  corporation  of  R.  S.  Luqueer  &  Company,  67 
Murray  Street,  which  was  established  in  1814. 

Albert  W.  Van  Winkle  died  December  15,  1909. 


*John  Read  Walker 

Youngest  son  of  Anthony  Smith  and  Mary  (Read)  Walker,  and 
descendant  of  Robert  Read,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence. 

John  R.  Walker  was  born  in  Pleasant  Green,  Mo.,  March  18, 
1846,  and  was  prepared  for  college  by  F.  T.  Kemper  at  Boone- 
ville,  Mo.  He  left  the  class  at  the  close  of  the  second  term  of 
Sophomore  year. 

In  1867  he  removed  to  Bates  County,  Mo.,  bought  a  large  farm 
and  engaged  in  stock  raising.  From  1870  to  1872  he  represented 
Bates  County  in  the  Missouri  Legislature,  and  was  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Elections.  He  was  then  only  twenty-four 
years  of  age,  and  the  youngest  member  of  the  Legislature.  He 
subsequently  studied  law  and  settled  as  an  attorney  in  Booneville. 

In  November,  1880,  he  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  for 
Cooper  County,  and  held  the  position  for  two  years,  during  which 
time  he  prosecuted  three  hundred  and  twenty-nine  criminal  cases 
and  secured  conviction  in  all  but  three.  The  Fund  Commissioners 
appointed  him,  in  1884,  Special  Agent  for  the  State  to  secure 
the  Missouri  war  claims  from  the  United  States  Government. 
December  5,  1888,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  the  Missouri  State  Reform  School  for  Boys,  and  was 
made  Secretary  of  the  Board.  He  was  reappointed  December 
1,  1892,  for  four  years.  In  May,  1886,  he  joined  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  South,  and  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Trustees ; 
also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Stewards,  being  President  of  both 


362 


THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Boards.  For  six  years  he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Booneville 
M.  E.  Sunday  School.  In  October,  1893,  he  was  elected  by  the 
annual  conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church  South  one  of  the  four 
delegates  to  the  general  conference  which  met  at  Memphis,  Tenn., 
in  May,  1894.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National 
Convention  which  was  held  at  Chicago  in  June,  1892,  and  was 
earnest  in  the  support  of  Mr.  Cleveland  for  renomination.  He 
took  an  active  part  in  the  canvass  of  1892  and  contributed  much 


to  the  success  of  his  party  in  his  district.  February  20,  1894,  he 
was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  United  States  District 
Attorney  for  the  western  district  of  Missouri.  He  served  in  this 
office  until  the  expiration  of  Mr.  Cleveland's  second  term  in  1897. 
After  his  retirement,  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  and  was  retained  by  the  United  States  Government  as 
special  counsel  to  argue  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  on  behalf  of  the  Government,  an  important  case  involving 
the  question  of  Interstate  Commerce.  After  that  he  received 
from  the  Attorney  General  of  the  United  States  two  special 
appointments  to  try  cases  on  behalf  of  the  Government,  one  case 
in  Iowa  and  the  other  in   Missouri.     Senator  Cockrell  says  of 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCHES — NON-GRADUATES  3^3 

him :  "He  was  a  man  of  the  highest  character  and  of  most  decided 
ability^  and  obtained  a  high  position  in  his  profession." 

He  was  married,  October  13,  1880,  at  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  to 
Alice  B.  Ewing,  daughter  of  Judge  Ephraim  B.  Ewing  of  the 
Missouri  Supreme  Court,  and  had  four  children:  Alice  Ewing, 
born  July  29,  1881,  at  Jefferson  City,  died  September  14,  1897; 
John  Read,  Jr.,  born  December  31,  1882,  at  Booneville;  Ewing 
Addison,  born  December  16,  1885,  at  Booneville;  Ephraim 
Brevard,  born  at  Booneville,  November  17,  1893. 

John  Read,  Jr.,  is  President  of  the  Lumberman's  Bureau,  and 
lives  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Ewing  Addison  and  Ephraim  Brevard  are  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  in  Hattiesburg,  Miss. 

John  Read  Walker  died  in  January,  1899,  in  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
as  a  result  of  some  heart  affection  caused  by  overwork. 

Mrs.  Walker  died  in  Kansas  City,  January  10,  1914. 


Frank  Alvord  Warfield 

Son  of  Abijah  Baker  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  Warfield,  was  born 
in  Holliston,  Mass.,  October  4,  1846.  He  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  entered  the  class  in  September, 
1865,  and  left  it  in  July,  1866. 

He  studied  two  years  at  the  Theological  Seminary  in  Hartford, 
preached  thirteen  months  in  Meriden  and  Stafford  Springs,  Conn., 
was  ordained  January  10,  1871,  in  Globe  Village,  Mass.,  and 
installed  July  31,  1873,  at  Greenfield  in  the  same  State.  February 
1,  1876,  he  was  called  to  the  Union  Congregational  Church,  Bos- 
ton, where  he  remained  till  November,  1881,  when  he  was  settled 
over  the  Porter  Church  in  Brockton,  Mass.  In  1908  he  became 
pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Milford,  Mass. 

Warfield  was  for  some  time  a  Trustee  of  Doane  College,  from 
which  he  received  the  Honorary  degree  of  D.D.  in  1898. 

He  was  married  in  1866  to  Miss  Mary  Jane  Reade  of  Medway, 
Mass.,  and  has  four  children :  Frank  A.,  who  studied  at  Amherst 
and  Middlebury,  an  electrical  engineer  in  Denver,  Col. ;  Clarence 
V.,  a  merchant  in  Omaha,  Neb. ;  Eva  Louise,  Wellesley  '92, 
who  lives  with  her  father  in  Milford;  and  Jane  Elizabeth, 
Wellesley  '97,  now  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Beckwith  of  Palmer,  Mass. 


364  THE    CLASS    OF    l868,    YALE    COLLEGE 


♦Edward  Payson  Wilder 

Eldest  son  of  Rev.  Royal  Gould  Wilder  (Middlebury  College 
1840)  and  Eliza  J.  Wilder,  was  born  July  22,  1847,  in  Ahmed- 
nagar,  India,  where  his  parents  were  stationed  as  missionaries  of 
the  American  Board.  He  came  to  America  in  1857  and  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Rural  High  School,  Clinton,  N.  Y. 

He  left  the  class  on  account  of  ill  health  at  the  beginning  of  the 
second  term  of  Freshman  year,  afterwards  entered  '69,  and 
graduated  with  that  class. 

His  biography  is  given  in  the  '69  class  book. 


Benjamin  Mairs  Wilson 

Son  of  Lieut.  Col.  John  Wilson,  United  States  Army,  was  born 
in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  November  5,  1848,  and  was  fitted  for  Yale 
in  the  Preparatory  Department  of  Columbia  College.  He  was  a 
good  writer  and  speaker,  and  won  second  prize  in  the  Linonia 
Prize  Debate  in  Freshman  year. 


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365 


Wilson  left  the  class  during  the  first  term  of  Sophomore  year, 
to  accept  the  position  of  Vice-Consul  at  Antwerp.  While  abroad, 
he  continued  his  studies  and  received  the  degree  of  D.C.L.,  sum  ma 
cum  laudc,  at  Heidelberg,  in  December,  1870.  In  May,  1871,  he 
returned  to  the  United  States  and  began  in  Chicago  the  practice 
of  law,  which  he  continued  till  1893.  In  1879  and  1880  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Illinois  Legislature  from  the  Second  (Chicago) 
District.  Since  1893  he  has  traveled  extensively,  and  has  spent 
much  time  in  Europe. 


He  was  married  at  Chicago,  December  10,  1874,  to  Frances 
Huntington  of  that  city,  by  whom  he  had  two  children :  Hunt- 
ington, born  December  15,  1875,  and  Sarah  Lorraine,  born  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1883,  died  August  14,  1887.  Mrs.  Frances  H.  Wilson 
died  in  June,  1904.  He  was  again  married  in  1908  to  Edith 
St.  George  Huntington,  and  now  resides  in  Versailles,  France. 

Huntington  Wilson  was  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  the 
Class  of  1897,  and  was  appointed  Second  Secretary  of  the  Ameri- 
can Legation  at  Tokyo  May  4,  1897;  Secretary,  October  10, 
1900.  May  26,  1906,  he  returned  to  America  to  serve  in  the 
Department  of  State.     June  22,   1906,  he  was  appointed  Third 


366  THE  CLASS  OF  1 868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Assistant  Secretary  of  State ;  March  5,  1909,  Assistant  Secretary 
of  State ;  September  30,  1910,  accredited  as  Ambassador  Extraor- 
dinary on  Special  Mission  to  the  Ottoman  Empire.  He  was 
married  in  June,  1904,  to  Lucy  Wortham  James  of  St.  James,  Mo. 


Isaac  B.  Woodbury 

His  father  was  Isaac  B.  Woodbury,  a  well-known  musical  composer, 
who  did  much  for  the  improvement  of  church  music  in  America  and  who 
spent  much  time  during  his  short  life  in  holding  musical  conventions  in 
many  parts  of  the  United  States.  He  wrote  church  music,  issued  several 
church  music  books,  and  published  The  Musical  Review  for  several  years. 
Among  his  best-known  tunes  are  "Siloam"  and  "Esmonton.'' 

Isaac  B.  Woodbury  was  born  March  5,  1848,  in  Salem,  Mass., 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover. 
He  was  with  the  Class  of  '68  till  the  beginning  of  Sophomore 
year. 

Since  leaving  Yale  he  has  been  in  the  banking  business.  His 
life  has  been  spent  mostly  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  and  in  San 
Francisco.  He  has  been  President  of  the  American  Banking  and 
Trust  Company,  Tulsa,  Indian  Territory ;  American  Bank,  Tulsa, 
Okla. ;  American  Bank,  Porter,  Okla. ;  First  State  Bank,  Clarks- 
ville,  Indian  Territory;  First  State  Bank,  Bristow,  Indian  Terri- 
tory;  Lincoln  Mortgage  and  Trust  Company,  Ashland,  Kan. 

November  28,  1888,  he  was  married  to  Mary  M.  C.  Conway  of 
San  Francisco,  and  has  had  four  children:  Isaac  B.,  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1889,  deceased;  Charles  P.,  born  September  2,  1892; 
Jesse  C,  born  May  4,  1894;   Frank  B.,  born  July  25,  1896. 


STATISTICS 


PLACE  OF  BIRTH. 

GRADUATES. 

New  York.  Ayres,  Boardman,  Coffin,  S.  A.  Davenport,  Dixon,  DuBois, 
Durant,  Esty,  Ferry,  Greene,  I.  C.  Hall,  Hopke,  MacGregor,  McKinm  y. 
Mead,  Morse,  Newell,  Rawson,  J.  W.  Russell,  Sloane,  Spencer,  Stowell, 
Van  Deusen,  Varick,  Varnum,  Viele,  Wesson,  R.  B.  Williams,  J.  H.  Wood, 
Woodruff,  Yates. — 31. 

Connecticut.  Bacon,  Beckvvith,  Brewster,  Chapman,  Coats,  Cowell, 
DeForest,  Edwards,  Farnam,  Harger,  Hill,  Holcombe,  Ingersoll,  F.  B. 
Lewis,  G.  H.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  Rice,  Robbins,  Searls,  Shelton,  Thacher, 
Tinker,  Tweedy,  Washburn,  Welch,  Welles,  Wheeler. — 27. 

Massachusetts.  Abbott,  Bailey,  Chapin,  L.  B.  Colt,  Fisher,  Fowler, 
H.  A.  Hicks,  Lawrence,  Means,  Seagrave,  Southworth,  J.  H.  Wilson. — 12. 

Ohio.     Bingham,  H.  Phillips,  Smith,  Swayne,  Tytus. — 5. 

Pennsylvania.     Biddle,  Eastburn,  Parsons,  Pierce. — 4. 

Tennessee.     Berry,  Cooper,  Trimble,  Watson. — 4. 

New  Jersey.     Linn,  Marsh,  Parry,  Pierson. — 4. 

Illinois.     Bragg,  Hamilton,  Manierre. — 3. 

Maine.     Burns,  Wentworth. — 2. 

New  Hampshire.     Webster,  Wright. — 2. 

Vermont.    E.  W.  Miller,  Woodbridge. — 2. 

Rhode  Island.     Allen,  N.  P.  S.  Thomas. — 2. 

Maryland.     Slay,  T.  H.  Williams.— 2. 

Michigan.     Clark,  Moore. — 2. 

Wisconsin.     Cramer,  Walcott. — 2. 

India.     Hume,  W.  C.  Wood. — 2. 

Delaware.     Bradford. — 1. 

Washington,  D.  C.     de  Kay. — 1. 

Chile.     Page. — 1. 

Constantinople,  Turkey.     H.  F.  Homes. — 1. 

Thirty-one  members  of  the  Class  lived  after  graduation  in  the  towns 
or  cities  in  which  they  were  born.  Twelve  others  did  not  change  their 
residence  after  they  were  settled  in  their  business  or  profession. 

NON-GRADUATES. 

New  York.  Birney,  Bowman,  Calhoun,  R.  L.  Colt,  W.  B.  Davenport, 
Foster,  Hamlin,  Jennings,  Kip,  W.  K.  Miller,  Potter,  Reade,  Robert, 
Selden,  Sistare,  Timmerman,  H.  S.  Williams. — 17. 


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Massachusetts.  Bemis,  Buck,  F.  C.  Hall,  Hayden,  L.  L.  Hicks,  F.  H. 
Holmes,  Jacobs,  Reed,  F.  W.  Russell,  Sears,  Warfield.— n. 

Connecticut.  Averill,  Backus,  Barnett,  Day,  Drake,  Hotchkiss.  Ketchum, 
Loomis,  Tyler,  Woodbury. — 10. 

Pennsylvania.  Ballantyne,  Cake,  Emerson,  Howe,  Ryan,  Van  Winkle 
B.  M.  Wilson.— 7. 

Ohio.     Boylan,  Cecil,  Lillie,  Mason,  J.  H.  Thomas. — 5. 

Illinois.     Bull,  Durley,  Frick,  Scarritt. — 4. 

Missouri.    J.  R.  Holmes,  Walker.— 2. 

Kentucky.     Reeves,  Rizer. — 2. 

Tennessee.     C.  H.  Phillips. — 1. 

New  Jersey.     Foote. — 1. 

Maine.     Hobson. — 1. 

New  Hampshire.     Ballou. — 1. 

Vermont.     Kittredge. — 1. 

Maryland.     Upshur. — 1. 

Michigan.     Simkins. — 1. 

Louisiana.     Forrest. — 1. 

India.     Wilder. — 1. 


TIME  OF  ENTERING  THE  CLASS. 

GRADUATES. 

With  the  Class.  Abbott,  Allen,  Ayres,  Bailey,  Berry,  Bingham,  Board- 
man,  Bradford,  Bragg,  Brewster,  Chapin,  Chapman,  Coats,  Coffin.  L.  B. 
Colt,  Cooper,  Cowell,  Cramer,  S.  A.  Davenport,  de  Kay,  Dixon,  DuBois, 
Durant,  Esty,  Farnam,  Ferry,  Fisher,  Greene,  I.  C.  Hall,  Hamilton, 
Harger,  H.  A.  Hicks,  H.  F.  Homes,  Hopke,  Hume,  Ingersoll,  Lawrence, 
F.  B.  Lewis,  G.  H.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  Linn,  MacGregor,  Manierre.  Marsh. 
Mead,  Means,  Morse,  Newell,  Parry,  Parsons,  H.  Phillips,  Pierce,  Rice, 
Robbins,  Seagrave,  Searls,  Sloane,  Smith,  Southworth,  Spencer,  Stowell, 
Thacher,  N.  P.  S.  Thomas,  Tinker,  Trimble,  Tweedy,  Tytus.  Van  Deusen, 
Varick,  Varnum,  Viele,  Walcott,  Watson,  Webster,  Welch.  Welles, 
Wesson,  Wheeler,  R.  B.  Williams,  J.  H.  Wilson,  J.  H.  Wood.  W.  C. 
Wood,  Woodbridge,  Woodruff,  Wright,  Yates. — 86. 

Freshman  Year,  Second  Term.     Beckwith,  DeForest,  Fowler. — 3. 

Sophomore  Year,  First  Term.  Hill,  Holcombe,  McKinney,  Moore,  Page, 
Pierson,  Rawson,  Shelton,  Slay,  Swayne,  Washburn,  Wentworth,  T.  H. 
Williams. — 13. 

Sophomore  Year,  Third  Term.     Bacon,  Biddle,  E.  W.  Miller. — 3. 

Junior  Year,  First  Term.     Eastburn,  Edwards,  J.  W.  Russell. — 3. 

Junior  Year,  Second  Term.     Clark. — 1. 

Senior  Year.     Burns. — 1. 

XON-GRADUATl  IS. 

At  the  Beginning  of  the  Course.  Averill,  Ballou,  Barnett,  Bemis,  Birney, 
Bowman,  Buck,  Bull,  Cake,  Calhoun,  Cecil,  R.  L.  Colt,  Day,  Drake,  Foote, 


STATISTICS  369 

Forrest,  Foster,  Frick,  F.  C.  Hall,  Hamlin,  Hayden,  L.  L.  Hicks,  Hobson, 
J.  R.  Holmes,  Hotchkiss,  Howe,  Ketchum,  Kip,  Lillie,  Loomis,  Mason, 
W.  K.  Miller,  C.  H.  Phillips,  Potter,  R.  L.  Reade,  I.  G.  Reed,  Reeves, 
Rizer,  Robert,  F.  W.  Russell,  Ryan,  Scarritt,  Sears,  Simkins,  Sistare, 
Timmerman,  J.  H.  Thomas,  Tyler,  Upshur,  Van  Winkle,  Walker,  Wilder, 
H.  S.  Williams,  B.  M.  Wilson,  Woodbury. — 55. 

During  Freshman  Year.  Backus,  Ballantyne,  Boylan,  W.  B.  Davenport, 
Durley,  Jacobs,  Jennings,  Kittredge,  Warfield. — 9. 

During  Sophomore  Year.     Emerson,  Selden. — 2. 

During  Junior  Year.    F.  H.  Holmes. — 1. 

TIME  OF  LEAVING  THE  CLASS. 

During  Freshman  Year.  Averill,  Barnett,  Bemis,  Buck,  Cake,  Calhoun, 
R.  L.  Colt,  W.  B.  Davenport,  Day,  Drake,  Durley,  Foote,  Forrest,  Foster, 
F.  C.  Hall,  Hamlin,  Hayden,  L.  L.  Hicks,  Hobson,  Jacobs,  Ketchum,  Kip, 
Kittredge,  Lillie,  C.  H.  Phillips,  Potter,  Reeves,  Rizer,  Sears,  Sistare,  T.  H. 
Thomas,  Tyler,  Van  Winkle,  Wilder. — 34. 

During  Sophomore  Year.  Ballou,  Bowman,  Boylan,  Bull,  Cecil,  Emer- 
son, Frick,  J.  R.  Holmes,  Hotchkiss,  Howe,  Mason,  W.  K.  Miller,  Pierson, 
Reade,  Reed,  F.  W.  Russell,  Scarritt,  Simkins,  Walker,  Warfield,  Wesson, 
H.  S.  Williams,  B.  M.  Wilson,  WToodbury. — 24. 

During  Junior  Year.  Backus,  Ballant}me,  Birney,  Edwards,  Manierre, 
Robert,  Selden,  Southworth,  Upshur. — 9. 

During  Senior  Year.     F.  H.  Holmes,  Jennings. — 2. 


PROFESSIONS  AND  OCCUPATIONS. 

GRADUATES. 

Theology.  Brewster,  Chapin,  S.  A.  Davenport,  DeForest,  Durant, 
Hume,  Lawrence,  F.  B.  Lewis,  MacGregor,  E.  W.  Miller,  Morse,  Parry, 
Rawson,  Tinker,  Welles,  Woodruff. — 16. 

Law.  Ayres,  Berry,  Biddle,  Bradford,  Bragg,  Chapman,  Coats.  L.  B. 
Colt,  Cooper,  Cowell,  Dixon,  DuBois,  Farnam,  Greene,  Hopke,  Ingersoll, 
G.  H.  Lewis,  J.  Lewis,  McKinney,  Page,  Parsons,  Pierce,  J.  W.  Russell, 
Searls,  Shelton,  Slay,  Spencer,  N.  P.  S.  Thomas,  Trimble,  Tweedy, 
Varnum,  Viele,  Washburn,  Watson,  Webster,  Welch,  Wentworth,  Wesson, 
J.  H.  Wilson,  J.  H.  Wood.— 40. 

Medicine.  Bacon,  Bailey,  Boardman,  Hamilton,  Pierson,  Thacher, 
Woodbridge. — 7. 

Education.  Beckwith,  Burns,  Eastburn,  Edwards,  Harger,  Hill,  Means, 
Rice,  T.  H.  Williams,  W.  C.  Wood,  Wright.— 11. 

Business.  Allen,  Bingham,  Coffin,  Esty,  Ferry,  Fisher,  Fowler,  I.  C. 
Hall,  H.  A.  Hicks,  Homes,  Marsh,  Mead,  Moore,  Seagrave,  Sloane,  South- 
worth,  Stowell,  Swayne,  Tytus,  Varick,  Wheeler,  R.  B.  Williams. — 22. 

Engineering.     Abbott,  H.  Phillips,  Robbins,  Yates.— 4. 

Journalism.     Linn,  Smith. — 2. 
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Finance.     Clark,  Cramer,  Manierre,  Newell. — 4. 
Literature,     de  Kay,  Holcombe. — 2. 

XOX-GRADUATES. 

Theology.     Emerson,  Scarritt,  J.  H.  Thomas,  Warfield. — 4. 

Law.  Averill,  Cake,  Durley,  Foote,  Frick,  W.  K.  Miller,  R.  L.  Reade, 
I.  G.  Reed,  Reeves,  Selden,  Upshur,  Van  Winkle,  Walker,  Wilder,  B.  M. 
Wilson. — 15. 

Medicine.  Ballantyne,  Barnett,  Boylan,  Drake,  Forrest,  F.  W.  Rus- 
sell.—6. 

J  id  it  cat  ion.     H.  S.  Williams. — 1. 

Business.  Ballou,  Bemis,  Bowman,  Buck,  Bull,  Cecil,  Day,  F.  C.  Hall, 
L.  L.  Hicks,  Hobson,  J.  R.  Holmes,  Hotchkiss,  Jacobs,  Jennings,  Ketchum, 
Kip,  Kittredge,  Mason,  C.  H.  Phillips,  Potter,  Rizer,  Robert,  Sears, 
Simkins. — 24. 

Journalism.     Backus,  F.  H.  Holmes,  Lillie. — 3. 

Finance.     Hamlin,  Sistare,  Woodbury. — 3. 

U.  S.  Xaval  Service.    Tyler. — 1. 


DEGREES. 

GRADUATES. 

Ph.B.    Abbott,  Yale  1870. 

M.A.  L.  B.  Colt,  Brown  1882;  Edwards,  Yale  1892;  G.  H.  Lewis, 
Grinnell  1871 ;  Manierre,  Yale  1893;  Pierson,  Yale  1888;  Rice,  Williams 
1883  ;    Southworth,  Yale  1877  ;   Wesson,  Yale  1888 .* 

Ph.D.  Beckwith,  Yale  1872;  Eastburn,  Princeton  1890;  Southworth, 
University  of  Tubingen  1872;    Wright,  Yale  1876. 

LL.B.  Ayres,  Harvard  1870;  Chapman,  Columbia  1870;  Coats, 
Columbia  1871 ;  L.  B.  Colt,  Columbia  1870;  Cowell,  Columbia  1869; 
Dixon,  Columbia  1870;  Farnam,  Columbia  187 1 ;  Greene,  Columbia  1870; 
Homes,  Columbia  1879;  Hopke,  New  York  University  Law  School  1869; 
Ingersoll,  Albany  Law  School  1869;  McKinney,  Columbia  187 1 ;  Manierre, 
Columbia  1869;  Parsons,  Albany  Law  School  1869;  Spencer,  Columbia 
1872;  N.  P.  S.  Thomas,  Columbia  1870;  Varnum,  Columbia  1871 ; 
Watson,  Harvard  1870;   Welch,  Yale  1870;   J.  H.  Wood,  Columbia  1870. 

M.D.  Bacon,  New  York  University  1871 ;  Bailey,  Boston  University 
1880 ;  Boardman,  Georgetown  Medical  College  1872 ;  Burns,  Columbia 
1873;  S.  A.  Davenport,  Columbia  1873;  Hamilton,  Columbia  1876;  Pier- 
son,  Columbia  1869;   Thacher,  Yale  1879;    Woodbridge,  Columbia  1872. 

15.1).  DeForest,  Yale  1871 ;  E.  W.  Miller,  Yale  1872;  Welles,  Yale 
1872. 

LL.D.     L.  B.  Colt,  Columbia  1904,  Yale  1905;    Wright,  Union  1895. 


*  Forty-three  members  of  the  Class  three  years  or  more  after  graduation 
received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Yale  on  the  payment  of  the 
usual  fee. 


STATISTICS  3  7  I 

D.D.  Beckwith,  Trinity  1898;  Brewster,  Trinity  1897,  Yale  1898,  Wes- 
leyan  1903;  DeForest,  Yale  1889;  Durant,  Union  1894;  Hume,  Yale  1895; 
Lawrence,  Beloit  1893 ;   Morse,  Rollins  1905. 

L.H.D.     Means,  Hobart  1912. 

NON-GRADUATES. 

B.A.  Averill,  Yale  1869;  Backus,  Yale  1870;  Buck,  Yale  1870;  Foote, 
Hobart  1868;  Forrest,  Rutgers  1868;  Hamlin,  Yale  1869;  W.  H.  Miller, 
Hobart  1869;  R.  L.  Reade,  Yale  1869;  Robert,  Yale  1869;  F.  W.  Russell, 
Harvard  1869;    Scarritt,  Amherst  1869;    Wilder,  Yale  1869. 

Ph.B.     H.  S.  Williams,  Yale  1868. 

M.A.  Boylan,  Lafayette  1875;  W.  B.  Davenport,  Yale  1887;  Drake, 
Yale  1883;   J.  H.  Thomas,  Hanover  (Ind.)   1888. 

Ph.D.     H.  S.  Williams,  Yale  1871. 

LL.B.  Hamlin,  Albany  Law  School  1870;  Kip,  Albany  Law  School 
1867;    R.  L.  Reade,  Columbia  1872;    Wilder,  Columbia  1871. 

M.D.  Ballantyne,  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College  1870;  Ballon, 
University  of  Pennsylvania  1868;  Barnett,  Yale  1869;  Boylan,  University 
of  Leipzig  1874;  Drake,  New  York  University  1871 ;  Forrest,  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College  1872;  Rizer,  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College 
1868. 

D.C.L.     B.  M.  Wilson,  Heidelburg  1870. 

D.D.  Scarritt,  Lane  University,  Kansas  1880;  Warfield,  Doane  College, 
Neb.  1898. 

MILITARY  RECORD. 

Eighteen  members  of  Sixty-eight,  twelve  graduate  and  six  non-graduate, 
served  in  the  Civil  War : 

Ayres,  Twenty-third  Connecticut  Infantry. 

Coats,  Twenty-second  Connecticut  Infantry. 

DeForest,  Twenty-eighth  Connecticut  Infantry. 

Eastburn,  Eleventh  Pennsylvania  Infantry. 

Fowler,  Fiftieth  Massachusetts  Infantry. 

Hill,  Twenty-third  Connecticut  Infantry. 

G.  H.  Lewis,  Fourteenth  Connecticut  Infantry. 

John  Lewis,  Twenty-second  Connecticut  Infantry. 

Pierson,    Twenty-seventh    New    Jersey    Infantry    and    Thirty-third 

New  Jersey  Infantry. 
Robbins,  Twenty-fifth  Connecticut  Infantry. 
M.  Thomas,  Commodore's  Aide,  United  States  Navy. 
Wright,  Fifty-first  Massachusetts  Infantry. 


Ballantyne,  One  Hundred  and  Ninety-third  Pennsylvania  Infantry. 
Birney,  Twenty-second  Connecticut  Infantry. 
L.  L.  Hicks,  Fifty-first  Massachusetts  Infantry. 
F.    H.    Holmes,    Fifty-second   Massachusetts    Infantry   and   Second 
Massachusetts  Cavalry. 


372  THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 

Sears,  Sixth  Massachusetts  Infantry. 

Timmerman,  Seventy-fourth  New  York  State  National  Guard. 

COLLEGE  FAMILIES. 

In  the  following  lists  the  degree  is  Bachelor  of  Arts  unless  otherwise 
stated. 

I. 

SONS   OF   COLLEGE  GRADUATES. 

Abbott Rev.  J.  J.  Abbott,  Dartmouth  1839. 

Brewster Rev.  Joseph  Brewster,  Yale  1842. 

DeForest    Rev.  William  A.  Hyde,  Amherst  1829. 

Edwards    Rev.  Tryon  Edwards,  Yale  1828. 

Farnam  Henry  Farnam,  M.A.,  Yale  1871. 

Homes Rev.  Henry  A.  Homes,  Amherst  1830. 

Hume    Rev.  Robert  W.  Hume,  Union  1834. 

Ingersoll  Hon.  Charles  A.  Ingersoll,  M.A.,  Yale  1827. 

Lawrence   Rev.  Edward  A.  Lawrence,  Dartmouth  1834. 

Linn    Dr.  Alexander  Linn,  Union  1831. 

Means   Rev.  James  Means,  Bowdoin  1833. 

Morse   Richard  C.  Morse,  Yale  1812. 

Rawson    Rev.  Thomas  R.  Rawson,  Amherst  1830. 

Rice    Richard  E.  Rice,  Yale  1839. 

Southworth    Hon.  Edward  Southworth,   Harvard   1826. 

Swayne  Judge  Noah  H.  Swayne,  LL.D.,  Yale,  Hon.  1865. 

Thacher    Professor  Thomas  A.  Thacher,  Yale  1835. 

Varnum    Hon.  Joseph  B.  Yarnum,  Yale  1838. 

Woodbridge    Hon.  Frederick   E.    Woodbridge,   Univ.  Vermont 

1841. 

Buck    Edward  Buck,  Yale  1835. 

Emerson Rev.  Dr.  Daniel    Hopkins    Emerson,    Dartmouth 

1830. 

J.  H.  Thomas   Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Thomas,  Miami  1834. 

Wilder    Rev.  Royal  Gould  Wilder,  Middlebury  1840. 

II. 

BROTHERS    OF   COLLEGE   GRADUATES. 

Abbott    Jacob  J.  Abbott,  Ph.B.  Yale  1872. 

William  W.  Abbott,  Ph.B.  Yale  1877. 

Paul  W.  Abbott,  Ph.B.  Yale  1883. 
Allen   William  L.  Allen,  Yale  1880. 

Martin  S.  Allen,  Yale  1882. 

Z.  Nelson  Allen,  Yale  1886. 
Biddle   George  W.  Biddle,  Yale  1863. 

Arthur   Biddle,   Yale  1873. 


statistics  373 

Brewster    James  H.  Brewster,  Ph.B.  Yale  1877. 

William  J.  Brewster,  Yale  1881. 
Benjamin   Brewster,  Yale  1882. 
Chapman    S.  Hartwell  Chapman.  Vale   1X66. 

John  H.  Chapman,  Ph.B.  Yale  1876. 

Coffin Edmund  Coffin,  Yale  1866. 

Cramer  Edward  Cramer,  Yale  1871. 

DeForest   Joel  W.  Hyde,  M.D.  Yale  1861. 

Dixon   Ephraim  W.   Dixon,   Yale   1881. 

DuBois  Edward  C.  DuBois,  Yale  1854. 

Farnam    George  B.  Farnam,  M.D.  Yale  1869. 

William  W.  Farnam,  Yale   1866. 

Henry  W.  Farnam,  Yale  1874. 

Ferry  Charles  H.  Ferry,  Yale   1872. 

Fowler    Herbert  G.  Fowler,  Yale  1874. 

Harger   Charles  Harger,  Ph.B.  Yale  1857. 

Holcombe    John  M.  Holcombe,  Yale  1869. 

Hume   Edward  S.  Hume,  Yale  1870. 

Ingersoll    Charles  D.  Ingersoll,  Yale  1864. 

Thomas  C.  Ingersoll,  Yale   1865. 

McKinney    Edward  P.  McKinney,  Yale  1861. 

E.  W.  Miller Eliott  S.  Miller,  Yale  1873. 

Hiram  A.  Miller,  Ph.B.  Yale  1876. 

Charles  Miller,  Yale  1879. 
Morse   Sidney  E.  Morse,  Yale  1856. 

Richard  C.  Morse,  Yale  1862. 

William  H.  Morse,  Yale  1867. 

Page    Olof  Page,  Yale  1864. 

Slay  John  O.  Slay,  Yale  1859. 

Sloane  Henry  T.  Sloane,  Yale  1866. 

Southworth   George  C.  S.  Southworth,  Yale  1863. 

Edward  Southworth,  Yale  1879. 

Thomas  S.  Southworth,  Yale  1883. 
Swayne  Wager  Swayne,  Yale  1856. 

Noah  H.  Swayne,  Yale  1870. 

Frank  B.  Swayne,  Yale  1872. 
Thacher    Thomas  Thacher,  Yale  1871. 

Edward  S.  Thacher,  Yale  1872. 

Alfred  B.  Thacher,  Yale  1874. 

John  S.  Thacher,  Yale  1877. 

Sherman  D.  Thacher,  Yale  1883. 

William  L.  Thacher,  Yale  1887. 
N.  P.  S.  Thomas   Elisha  S.  Thomas,  Yale  1858. 

Aaron  S.  Thomas,  Yale  1869. 

Watson  William  P.  Watson,  Yale  1869. 

Wesson  Charles  H.  Wesson,  Yale  1863. 

R.  B.  Williams   Henry  S.  Williams,  Ph.B.  Yale  1868. 


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III. 
FATHERS   OF   COLLEGE   GRADUATES. 

Eighty-three  children  of  Sixty-eight,  fifty-nine  sons  and  twenty-four 
daughters,  have  received  academic  degrees  or  are  now  students  in  college 
and  candidates  for  degrees. 

Abbott Ruth  Beatrice,  Wellesley  1904. 

Bailey   Ruth  Merrill,  Mount  Holyoke  1909. 

Berry John  Kirkman,  Yale  1896. 

Coburn  Dewees,  Yale  1899. 

William  Tyler,  Ph.B.  Yale  1906. 
Biddle   George  Washington,  Harvard  1908. 

Francis  Beverly,  Harvard  1909. 

Sydney  Geoffrey,  Harvard   1913. 

Bingham    Henry  Payne,  Yale  1910. 

Bradford   Edward  Green,  Jr.,  Yale  1900. 

L.  B.  Colt  LeBaron  Carlton,  Brown  1899. 

Cooper    Horace  Polk,  Harvard  1910. 

Davenport    Mary  Isabel,  Wilson  (Pa.)   1898. 

DeForest    Sarah  Lydia,  Smith  1901. 

Charlotte  Burgis,  Smith  1901. 

John  Starr,  B.S.  Amherst  1906. 

Louise  Hyde,   Smith   1907. 
Dixon    William   Henry,   Columbia   1900. 

Courtlandt  Palmer,  Yale  1908. 

Durant    William  Clark,  B.E.  Union  1904. 

Farnam  Charles  Henry,  Jr.,  Ph.B.  Yale  1895. 

Ferry    John  Farwell,  Ph.B.  Yale  1901. 

Frank  Farwell,  Yale  1900. 

Montague,  Ph.B.  Yale  1902. 

Horace  Farwell,  Yale   1906. 
Greene    Joseph  Warren,  Jr.,  Yale  1899. 

Herbert  Gouverneur,  Yale  1903. 
Hume   Ruth  Peabody,  Wellesley  1897. 

Robert  Ernest,  Yale  1898. 

Hannah,  Wellesley  1900. 

Wilson  McLaughry,  Yale  1909. 

Walter  Fairbank,  Ph.B.  Yale  1912. 

Henry  Woods,  Yale  1916. 

Mary  Ballantine,  Mount  Holyoke  1918. 
Ingersoll    Charles  Anthony,  Ph.B.  Yale   1893. 

Jonathan,  Ph.B.  Yale  1896. 

F.  B.  Lewis   Arthur  Franklin,  Yale  1892. 

John  Lewis  Warren  Harmon,  B.S.  Univ.  of  Michigan  1894. 

John  Gurdon,  M.E.  Univ.  of  Michigan  1897. 

Read,  Univ.  of  Wisconsin  1909. 

Harmon,   I'niv.  of  Wisconsin   191 1. 


STATISTICS  375 

Manierre    Alfred  Edgerton,  Yale  1902. 

Louis,  Yale  1901. 

\rtluir,  Yale  1903. 

Francis  Edgerton,  Yale  1907. 
Means  Margaret  Appleton,  Smith  1910. 

Elinor   Haven,  Smith   1910. 
Moore   Laura.   Univ.  of  Michigan  1899. 

Emily  C,   Wellesley  1908. 
Morse   Richard  Cary,  Ph.B.  Yale  1906. 

Elizabeth,  Mount  Holyoke  1907. 

Oliver  Cromwell,  Jr.,  Yale  1910. 

Anthony,  Yale  1915. 

Page    Charles  Randolph,  Yale  1900. 

H.   Phillips   Charlotte  Van  Cleve,  Stanford  1897. 

Horace  Pease,  B.S.  Univ.  of  California  1903. 

Dorothy  Disbrow,  Univ.  of  California   1912. 
Rice   Richard  Ashley,  Williams  1899. 

Maxwell  Ware,  Wrilliams  1903. 
Russell    William  Julius,  Univ.  of  Vermont  1898. 

Elmer  Beecher,  Ph.B.  Univ.  of  Vermont  1906. 

Seagrave    Walter  Howard,  Ph.B.  Yale  1904. 

Spencer Elliott  Lines,  Cornell  1896. 

Stowell   Mary  Esty,  Vassar  1899. 

Edward  Esty,  Hamilton  1901. 

Harley  Lord,  Hamilton  1905. 
Thacher    Henrietta  Foster,  Bryn  Mawr  1901. 

Henry  Clarke,  Yale  1902. 

Thomas  Anthony,  Yale   1908. 

Tinker    Chauncey  Brewster,  Yale  1899. 

Tytus    Robb  de  Peyster,  Yale  1897. 

Viele  Grace,  Smith  1901. 

Dorr,  Yale  1902. 

Sheldon  Knickerbocker,  Yale  1916. 

Welch    Bradley  Agard,  Yale  1902. 

Welles    Grace  Southworth,  Mount  Holyoke  1895. 

Mary  Wolcott,  Mount  Holyoke  1900. 
Wheeler  Theodora  Rumsey,  Vassar   191 1. 

Nathaniel,  Yale  1914. 

Ellen  Rumsey,  Vassar  1915. 
Wright   Alice  Lincoln,  Wellesley  1897. 

Henry  Burt,  Yale  1898. 

Alfred  Parks,  Yale  1901. 


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VITAL  STATISTICS. 


Name 

Date  of  Birth 

Date  of  Marriage 

Children 
Boys    Girls 

Age  at 
Marriage 

Age  at 
Death 

Abbott 

Aug.  29,  1846 

Sept.  24,  1877 

I 

1 

31 

Allen 

Feb.  29,  1848 

Feb.  9,  1876 

3 

2 

28 

56 

Ayres 

Jan.  10,  1844 

29 

Bacon 

Aug.  27,  1846 

June  10,  1875 

28 

59 

Bailey 

Jan.  23,  1845 

Aug.  6,  1873 

4 

1 

28 

Beckwith 

Oct.  18,  1843 

Berry 

Oct.  27,  1844 

Oct.  29,  1873 

4 

1 

29 

66 

Biddle 

Oct.  11,  1847 

June  28,  1879 

4 

31 

43 

Bingham 

May  22,  1846 

June  8,  1876 

3 

2 

30 

Boardman 

Oct.  23,  1845 

June  18,  1873 

27 

29 

Bradford 

March  12,  1848 

Sept.  18,  1872 

2 

3 

24 

Bragg 

Apr.  12,  1845 

Sept.  22,  1872 

1 

2 

27 

50 

Brewster 

Sept.  5,  1848 

(1)  Oct.  15,  1873 

(2)  June  20,  1893 

1 

1 

25 

Burns 

Jan.  14,  1842 

/i 

Chapin 

May  15,  1844 

28 

Chapman 

June  24, 1848 

Nov.  25,  1873 

1 

25 

27 

Clark 

April  25, 1846 

Oct.  13,  1874 

1 

28 

60 

Coats 

May  9,  1842 

June  22,  187 1 

29 

Coffin 

Oct.  13,  1847 

Dec.  5,  1878 

3 

31 

59 

Colt 

June  25,  1846 

Dec.  17,  1873 

2 

4 

27 

Cooper 

April  25,  1846 

Jan.  13,  1881 

1 

34 

60 

Cowell 

March  25, 1840 

Nov.  11,  1878 

1 

2 

38 

70 

Cramer 

Aug.  7,  1847 

Davenport 

June  27,  1846 

Aug.  28,  1878 

3 

2 

32 

DeForest 

June  25,  1844 

(1)  June  5,  1871 

(2)  Sept.  23,  1874 

1 

4 

27 

66 

de  Kay 

July  25,  1848 

June  4,  1888 

3 

5 

39 

Dixon 

March  19,  1847 

April  26,  1871 

2 

1 

24 

Du  Bois 

July  7,  1845 

Nov.  20,  1894 

49 

Durant 

Aug.  21,  1846 

(1)  July  17,  1878 

(2)  May  19,  1887 

1 

2 

1 

31 

67 

Eastburn 

Sept.  25,  1838 

(1)  Sept.  8,  1870 

(2)  July  12,  1876 

1 
1 

! 

42 

69 

Edwards 

Feb.  26,  1846 

Feb.  13,  1873 

1 

3 

27 

58 

Esty 

May  29,  1847 

62 

Earn  am 

Sept.  12,  1846 

June  8,  1870 

1 

I 

23 

63 

Ferry 

May  15,  1845 

Oct.  12,  1875 

5 

30 

54 

Fisher 

Nov.  18,  1843 

Jan.  18,  1876 

32 

56 

Fowler 

Dec.  14,  1843 

Oct.  17,  1888 

44 

Greene 

Nov.  2,  1846 

Oct.  20, 1874 

3 

2 

28 

Hall 

Oct.  9,  1846 

Oct.  6,  1869 

2 

I 

23 

61 

Hamilton 

Aug.  31,  1848 

33 

Harger 

Jan.  12,  1843 

May  13,  1875 

32 

44 

STATISTICS 


377 


Name 

Hicks 

Hill 

Holcombe 

Homes 

Hopke 

Hume 

Ingersoll 

Lawrence 
Lewis,  F.  B. 
Lewis,  G.  H. 

Lewis,  J. 

Linn 

MacGregor 

McKinney 

Manierre 

Marsh 

Mead 

Means 

Miller 

Moore 

Morse 

Newell 

Page 

Parry 

Parsons 

Phillips 

Pierce 

Pierson 

Rawson 

Rice 

Robbins 

Russell 

Seagrave 

Searls 

Shelton 

Slay 

Sloane 

Smith 

Southworth 

Spencer 

Stowell 


Date  of  Birth 

Oct.  7, 1844 

Aug.  26,  1839 
Feb.  3, 1846 
April  20, 1847 
Oct.  29,  1846 
March  18,  1847 

April  23,  1848 

Jan.  16,  1847 
July  25,  1844 
Sept.  6, 1842 

June  22, 1842 

Sept.  4,  1846 
Nov.  30,  1844 
Aug.  31,  1845 
Feb.  5, 1845 
Sept.  11,  1847 
Jan.  10,  1847 
May  1,  1847 
Oct.  29,  1845 
Sept.  6,  1845 
Sept.  18,  1847 
Jan.  11,  1846 
March  12,  1847 
March  29,  1845 
Aug.  19, 1844 
April  9,  1847 
Aug.  3,  1845 
Nov.  8,  1844 
Feb.  21,  1846 
Oct.  22,  1846 
Nov.  4,  1 84 1 
Sept.  1,  1846 
Nov.  5,  1843 
March  25,  1846 
Sept.  11,  1845 
Aug.  5, 1846 
Oct.  21,  1847 
Sept.  29,  1847 
Sept.  23,  1847 
May  20,  1847 
Jan.  25,  1846 


Date  of  Marriage 
0)  1873 

(2)  April  8, 1888 
Feb.  3,  1869 


(1)  July  7,  1874 

(2)  Sept.  7,  1887 

(1)  Oct.  6,  1870 

(2)  March  16,  1889 

June  7, 1871 

(1)  Aug.  27, 1869 

(2)  Dec.  5,  1808 

(1)  July  27,  1868 

(2)  July  6,  1882 
Jan.  31,  1871 

May  8,  1880 
Feb.  9,  1876 
April  12,  1877 
May,  1870 
April  5,  1877 
July  6,  1876 
June  11,  1873 
June  22,  1881 
Sent.  1,  1886 
Sept.  12,  1877 
Dec.  1, 1875 
Nov.  26,  1872 
Jan.  7,  1876 
March  11,  1884 
Sept.  13,  1870 
April  10,  1888 
Nov.  28,  1876 
May  5,  1895 
Dec.  31,  1872 
July  1,  1869 
Oct.  8,  1902 

Dec.  3,  1885 
June  3,  1873 
Feb.  20,  1873 
Nov.  25,  1879 
Sept.  25,  1871 
Dec.  18,  1873 


Children         Age  at 
Boys    Girls    Marriage 

29 

I 

1        3 


29 


Age  at 
Death 


63 


2  2 

3  I 
2  2 

I 


27 
22 

26 

27 

26 
24 

34 
3i 

29 
23 
29 
30 
27 
33 
40 
30 
30 
28 
28 
38 
25 
42 
30 
53 
26 
25 
56 

39 
25 
25 
32 
24 
27 


58 

46 
70 

65 


43 
47 


65 

64 

57 

66 


53 


42 
33 

58 
55 


378 


THE  CLASS  OF  l868,  YALE  COLLEGE 


Children 

Age  at 

Age  at 

Name 

Date  of  Birth 

Date  of  Marriage 

Boys 

Girls 

Marriage 

Death 

Swayne 

June  2,  1845 

Dec.  22, 1875 

30 

48 

Thacher 

Oct.  19,  1847 

Sept.  10,  1878 

2 

I 

30 

43 

Thomas 

Nov.  17,  1844 

45 

Tinker 

Oct.  15,  1844 

(1)  Oct.  9,  1873 

(2)  July  20,  1881 

(3)  Nov.  25,  1884 

I 

I 

29 

42 

Trimble 

Sept.  27,  1845 

Oct.  26,  1876 

2 

I 

31 

65 

Tweedy 

April  21,  1846 

July  16,  1879 

I 

33 

64 

Tytus 

Aug.  22,  1847 

June  24,  1874 

I 

26 

33 

Van  Deusen 

Dec.  31,  1842 

38 

Varick 

Dec.  1,  1846 

Oct.  16,  1883 

36 

Varnum 

June  29,  1848 

June  14,  1899 

51 

58 

Viele 

Jan.  4,  1847 

June  5,  1877 

2 

3 

30 

Walcott 

May  20,  1844 

55 

Washburn 

Jan.  22,  1847 

(1)  Oct.  30,  1873 

(2)  June  25,  1885 

1 
1 

26 

Watson 

July  11,  1846 

57 

Webster 

Nov.  8,  1846 

(1)  Oct.  18,  1870 

(2)  April  27,  1910 

2 

1 

24 

Welch 

Sept.  22,  1844 

Oct.  8,  1873 

I 

29 

Welles 

Aug.  7,  1846 

(1)  Dec.  4,  1872 

(2)  Oct.  15,  1913 

2 

26 

Wentworth 

Sept.  25,  1845 

July  7,  1886 

40 

62 

Wesson 

Aug.  27,  1845 

Aug.  13,  1878 

1 

33 

59 

Wheeler 

Sept.  16,  1845 

(1)  May  17,  1876 

(2)  June  18,  1884 

I 

1 
2 

30 

Williams,  R. 

B.  May  8,  1848 

(1)  Nov.  2,  1870 

(2)  Dec.    17,  1874 

I 

1 
1 

22 

Williams,  T. 

H.  April  4,  1845 

Sept.  23,  1873 

28 

67 

Wilson 

March  9,  1847 

May  22,  1877 

30 

58 

Wood,  J.  H. 

Nov.  21,  1848 

April  26,  1877 

2 

1 

28 

52 

Wood,  W.  C. 

April  20,  1849 

26 

Woodbridge 

July  29,  1848 

38 

Woodruff 

Feb.  16,  1845 

Oct.  15,  1884 

39 

Wright 

Nov.  30,  1839 

July  7,  1874 

3 

1 

34 

Yates 

Jan.  25,  1846 

June  4,  1884 

1 

1 

38 

50 

STATISTICS  379 

DEATHS  BY  DECADES. 

Sixty-one  members  of  the  class  have  died  since    1868,   by  decades  as 
follows : 

John  Marvin  Chapin,  October  25,  1872. 
Russell  William  Ayres,  December  14,   1873. 
Herbert  Boardman,  July  4,  1875. 
William  Curtis  Wood,  July  15,   1875. 
Timothy  Pitkin  Chapman,   September  13,  1875. 

Charles  Edwin  Smith,  December  23,  1880. 
Spencer  Reynolds  Van  Deusen,  May  16,  1881. 
Edward  Jefferson  Tytus,  May  19,  1881. 
William  Abbott  Hamilton,  October  21,  1881. 
Anson  Phelps  Tinker,  November  25,  1886. 
Enoch  Day  Woodbridge,  January  4,  1887. 
Oscar  Harger,  November  6,  1887. 

Nathaniel  Phillips  Smith  Thomas,  May  12,  1890. 
Thomas  Chalmers  Sloane,  June  17,  1890. 
Charles  Clark  Marsh,  November  27,  1890. 
Algernon  Sydney  Biddle,  April  8,  1891. 
James  Kingsley  Thacher,  April  20,  1891. 
Edward  Alexander  Lawrence,  November  10,  1893. 
Henry  Stuart  Swayne,  November  25,  1893. 
Edward  Spencer  Mead,  January  10,  1894. 
William  Chittenden  Bragg,  September  7,   1895. 
Horatio  Green  Yates,  March  18,  1896. 

Douglas  Walcott,  June  29,  1899. 

George  William  Fisher,  February  17,  1900. 

Julius  William  Russell,  February  25,  1900. 

William  Henry  Ferry,  March  4,  1900. 

Calvin  Daniel  Stowell,  February  26,  1901. 

James  Henry  Wood,  March  23,  1901. 

Samuel  Watson,  October  5,  1903. 

Tryon  Holkar  Edwards,  February  18,  1904. 

Horace  Phillips,  May  7,  1904. 

Frederic  Wesson,  November  30,  1904. 

Edwin  Lee  Allen,  December  19,  1904. 

Edward  Frederick  Hopke,  December  30,   1904. 

Edward  Leavitt  Spencer,  May  2,  1905. 

John  Howard  Wilson,  February  2,  1906. 

William  Turner  Bacon,  March  16,  1906. 

Elihu  Leach  Clark,  June  28,  1906. 

James  Coffin,  December  28,  1906. 

Horace  Stevens  Cooper,  February  10,  1907. 

James  McCall  Varnum,  March  26,  1907. 


380  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

George  Eastburn,  October  13,  1907. 

Thomas  Fenner  Wentworth,  November  11,  1907. 

Ira  Cole  Hall,  April  27,  1908. 

William  Parsons,  November  21,  1908. 
James  Winthrop  Holcomb,  June  26,  1909. 
Charles  Henry  Farnam,  September  24,  1909. 
Albert  Henry  Esty,  April  13,  1910. 
Donald  MacGregor,  May  11,  1910. 
George  Hubert  Cowell,  August  10,  1910. 
Samuel  Tweedy,  October  6,  1910. 
William  Roumage  Shelton,  January  13,  191 1. 
John  Hyde  DeForest,  May  8,  191 1. 
James  Trimble,  August  6,  191 1. 
Stephen  Pierson,  August  10,  191 1. 
Coburn  Dewees  Berry,  September  13,  191 1. 
Charles  Page,  February  26,  1912. 
Thomas  Hanse  Williams,  August  29,  1912. 
George  Henry  Lewis,  March  16,  1913. 
Joseph  Scribner  Burns,  July  26,  1913. 
William  Durant,  March  1,  1914. 


SUMMARY. 

Whole  number  connected  with  the  Class 177 

Number  of  members  at  the  beginning  of  Freshman  year 141 

Number  subsequently  admitted 36 

Number  of  graduates no 

Number  of  non-graduates 67 


STATISTICS  ;i8 1 


POST  OFFICE  ADDRESSES. 


James  W.  Abbott,  123  North  Grand  av.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Stephen  G.  Bailey,  M.D.,  Custom  House,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  Prof.  Isbon  T.  Beckwith,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Charles  W.  Bingham,  2157  Euclid  av.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Hon.  Edward  G.  Bradford,  Federal  Building,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Rt.  Rev.  Chauncey  B.  Brewster,  D.D.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Hon.  John  Coats,  41  Vine  St.,  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Hon.  LeBaron  B.  Colt,  LL.D.,  105  Waterman  st,  Providence,  R.  1. 

Frank  Cramer,  1306  Ritchie  pi.,  Chicago,  111. 

Rev.  S.  Augustus  Davenport,  M.D.,  McMeclnn,  \\  .   \  a. 

Charles  A.  de  Kay,  413  W.  23d  st.,  New  York  City. 

William  P.  Dixon,  32  Liberty  st.,  New  York  City. 

Cornelius  DuBois,  265  Pelton  av.,  West  New  Brighton,  S.  I.,  N.  Y.  City. 

Benjamin  A.  Fowler,  Box  965,  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

J.  Warren  Greene,  115  Willow  st.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Horace  A.  Hicks,  Spencer,  Mass. 

Beach  Hill,  R.  F.  D.  3,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Henry  F.  Homes,  52  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Rev.  Pres.  Robert  A.  Hume,  D.D.,  Ahmednagar,  India. 

Jonathan  Ingersoll,  212  W.  7th  st.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Rev.  Frank  B.  Lewis,  Bozeman,  Mont. 

John  Lewis,  424  X.  Oak  Park  av.,  Oak  Park,  111. 

William  A.  Linn,  164  Clinton  pi.,  Hackensack,  N.  J. 

William  A.  McKinney,  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

George  Manierre,  112  W.  Adams  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

D.  McGregor  Means,  Middlebury,  Vt. 

Rev.  Elisha  W.  Miller,  Riviera,  Texas. 

Frank  Moore,  722  N.  Riverside  av.,  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

Rev.  Oliver  C.  Morse,  Box  212,  Greenlawn,  N.  Y. 

George  A.  Newell,  127  W.  Center  st.,  Medina,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Samuel  Parry,  204  E.  Main  st.,  Somerville,  N.  J. 

Thomas  W.  Pierce,  West  Chester,  Pa. 

Rev.  Prof.  Edward  K.  Rawson,  2137  Le  Roy  pi.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Prof.  Richard  A.  Rice,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Thomas  H.  Robbins,  241  Franklin  st.,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Frank  E.  Seagrave,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Hon.  Charles  E.  Searls,  Thompson,  Conn. 

Hon.  William  M.  Slay,  Chestertown,  Md. 

Prof.  Mase  S.  Southworth,  Ph.D.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

J.  Leonard  Varick,  Great  Northern  Hotel,  118  W.  57th  st.,  New  York  City. 

Sheldon  T.  Viele,  104  Richmond  av.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Henry  L.  Washburn,  100  William  st.,  New  York  City. 

John  H.  Webster,  Variety  Iron  &  Steel  Works  Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Hon.  Gideon  H.  Welch,  Torrington,  Conn. 

Rev.  T.  Clayton  Welles,  Torresdale,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


3§2  THE    CLASS    OF    1 868,    YALE    COLLEGE 

Samuel  H.  Wheeler,  Fairfield,  Conn. 

Prof.  H.  S.  Williams,  Ph.D.,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

Roger  B.  Williams,  306  N.  Cayuga  st.,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Henry  C.  Woodruff,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Prof.  Henry  P.  Wright,  128  York  st.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


John  F.  Barnett,  M.D.,  34  Church  st.,  West  Haven,  Conn. 

Halsted  Boylan,  M.D.,  36  West  Biddle  st.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

W.  B.  Bull,  Chicago  Club,  Chicago,  111. 

J.  A.  Cake,  Sunbury,  Pa. 

Hon.  A.  W.  Durley,  Superior,  Douglas  Co.,  Wis. 

F.  C.  Hall,  22  N.  Sangamon  st.,  Chicago,  111. 

Hon.  J.  W.  Hobson,  1049  Phelan  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Hon.  J.  R.  Holmes,  285  Congress  pi.,  Pasadena,  Cal. 

E.  M.  Hotchkiss,  189  Clinton  av.,  Newark,  N.  J. 
Dr.  C.  A.  Jacobs,  92  Columbia  st.,  Brookline,  Mass. 
George  W.  Potter,  320  North  Fourth  st.,  Burlington,  Iowa. 

F.  W.  Russell,  M.D.,  41 19  Cedar  Springs  Road,  Dallas,  Texas. 
Rev.  William  R.  Scarritt,  St.  Stephen's  Rectory,  Millidgeville,  Ga. 

G.  B.  Selden,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

M.  C.  Simkins,  1144  Angelina  st.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Hon.  George  M.  Upshur,  Snow  Hill,  Md. 

Rev.  F.  A.  Warfield,  Milford,  Mass. 

B.  M.  Wilson,  49  Boulevard  de  la  Reine,  Versailles,  France. 

I.  B.  Woodbury,  425  Delaware  st.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


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